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 statistical analysis was made of cheek teeth of Plio/Pleistocene hominids. Samples used were Kenya National Museum specimens usually classified as Homo habilis and Australopithecus boisei, and ...

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 ...

These are skull casts from human evolution. Left to right: Australopithecus afarensis, Homo habilis, Homo ergaster, Homo erectus and Homo neanderthalensis. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

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 ...

The history of humanity on Earth spans well over a million years. Ancient human species such as Australopithecus, who walked ...

That’s kind of the state of affairs in human evolution, especially now that a new branch of the clan has crawled out of some anthropological backwater and horned its way into the party.

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 ...

Meet the digital handy man. This is a reconstruction of the skull of one of the first known members of the human genus, Homo habilis, which means “handy man”, from about 1.8 million years ago. The ...

The oldest fossil of the human genus Homo has been unearthed in Ethiopia, a groundbreaking discovery that pushes the history of human evolution 400,000 years further into the past. Found at a site ...

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