Paleoanthropologists have thought that Homo habilis was the first stone-tool maker and meat-eater in our genus. But new research suggests H. habilis might not have been so advanced.
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Senior Lecturer in Palaeolithic Archaeology, University of Southampton
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Professor of Archaeology, Griffith University
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Professor of Anthropology, The Ohio State University
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Paleoanthropologist, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Department of Archaeology and History, La Trobe University
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Research Associate Professor of Anthropology, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
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Emeritus Research Professor of African Ecology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Lecturer of Anthropology and Assistant Director of the Turkana Basin Institute, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
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Professor of Anthropology, Rice University