Nutcracker man locates a Handy man.

With the world wide success of nutcracker man funds began flowing freely and Africa was now the place to be when hunting for fossils of human origins. Asia was now no longer considered central to the emergence of human ancestors

Louis Leakey was catapulted out of the doldrums of ignominy to celebrity status and Olduvai now boasted a permanent camps site and ongoing excavations and plenty of funds. More time and eyes would be covering more territory there.

In 1960 two such eyes belonged to 19 year old Jonathan Leakey, who off exploring on his own he discovered a saber tooth cat mandible in the nearby vicinity of the nutcracker man excavation site. Hoping to find more of the cat, because who wouldn't want more of a saber tooth, he sieved the area only to find hominid teeth and bones.

Excavations began in earnest and very quickly it became apparent this was no nutcracker man. Despite being so close by and even similar in geological age this was very definitely something very different. The skull housed a comparatively larger brain and lacked the ridge of bone at the top or sagittal crest. (the center skull is Handy man and the outer two are nutcracker types with their large faces built for chewing)

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As much a Louis Leakey tried to avoid controversy this time around, he didn't even give it a name at first, this species would stir up controversy of various types of which some even continue till today.