Habiline
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Habiline is a noun meaning A specimen of the now extinct species Homo habilis.
Meaning
A specimen of the now extinct species Homo habilis.
More Meanings
- Of or pertaining to habilines.
Example Sentences
By around 2.3 million years ago, the first tentative record emerges of a new species, a habiline. Habilines, still poorly understood, are the “missing link” between apes and humans.
Sexual division of labor may be as old as the habiline hominids (H. habilis, ± 2.5 mya), who in all probability practiced a flexible subsistence strategy of "ecological opportunism optimized by tool use"[…].
Finally, new finds from Olduvai prompted Leakey, Tobias and Napier (1964) to recognize a new form, Homo habilis. Although the post-cranial elements of this find are no longer believed to be habiline, further finds[…]suggest that there is indeed a reality to this species.
Word Forms
- habilines
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include habitakle, habitacle, handax, hyen, hapludult, handiwoman.
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