Homo habilis
Homo habilis (Lat. ‘handy man’) Species of early human, discovered in 1964 by English palaeoanthropologist Louis
Leakey in the
Olduvai Gorge, East Africa. Its fossil remains are between
c.1.8 and
c.1.2 million years old, contemporary with those of
Australopithecus. The physical development is much more like that of modern human and it is thought they evolved into
Homo erectus. See also
human evolution
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A Duet Of Deftly Drawn Displays
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/17/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...near a Seurat); and from the gently luminous watercolor of Isidore-Alexandre-Auguste Pils's "Artillery Practice" to Denis-Auguste-Marie Raffet's "The Nocturnal Review," described by one critic as "not drawn with pencil, but...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/1/1999; 646 words
; Anniversaries Births: Sir Samuel Romilly, law reformer, 1757; Gottfried Weber, composer, 1779; Denis-Auguste-Marie Raffet, illustrator, 1823; Frederic-Francois (Fryderyk Franciszek) Chopin, composer, 1810; Augustus Welby...
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Denis Auguste Marie Raffet
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Denis Auguste Marie Raffet , 1804-60, French lithographer and illustrator; student of Charlet...lithographs (1850) of the French siege of Rome. An excellent draftsman, Raffet illustrated numerous works, among them the Histoire de la ré...
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