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The toolmaker man that existed 2 million years ago is called _____.


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Homo habilis:

  1. The toolmaker and the meat-eater were declared, and as a result, these two novel activities became crucial to the description of our genus.
  2. Genus Homo is the Latin name for a man. Homo habilis was named by a famous anthropologist Louis Leaky.
  3. Homo habilis happens to be the ancestor of today’s modern man.
  4. He made considerable use of chipped stone tools.
  5. It's also known as the "handyman" because heaps of tools discovered with these fossils contained sharpened stones, indicating that homo habilis could "make tools."

Final Answer:

The toolmaker man that existed for 2 million years is called Homo habilis.


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