When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Scientists now recognize more than a dozen species in the Homo genus. So what, exactly, was the ...
Homo habilis ("handy man") is an extinct species of archaic human from the Early Pleistocene of East and South Africa about 2.3–1.65 million years ago (mya). Upon species description in 1964, H.
A rare Homo habilis skeleton from Kenya reveals how early humans moved, climbed, and adapted more than two million years ago.
Homo habilis has long been considered the earliest member of the human genus, known for its association with early stone tools. This episode explores the fossil evidence from East Africa, the debate ...
Osbjorn Pearson In 2012, fossils from a rare Homo habilis skeleton were uncovered along the shores of Lake Turkana in ...
An international research team has unveiled a significant discovery in human paleontology: an exceptionally well-preserved Homo habilis skeleton dating back more than 2 million years. The fossil, ...
Far up in the Ethiopian highlands, the resounding strike of stone against stone was probably a familiar one two million years ago. Ancient hominids chipped away to create simple tools: hammerstones ...
A new study of early human ancestors who lived millions of years ago suggests that they were largely vegetarian, despite the fact that stone tools and cut animal bones have been found from that same ...
The versatile hand of Australopithecus sediba makes a better candidate for an early tool-making hominin than the hand of Homo habilis The extraordinary manipulative skills of the human hand are viewed ...
That has all happened within the last 150 years. When the Australopithecus were finally done with 2 million years of gathering, Homo habilis came along. These handy men and women had the ability to ...
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What was the first human species?
All humans today are members of the modern human species Homo sapiens — Latin for "knowing man." But we're far from the only humans who ever existed. Fossils are revealing more and more about early ...
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