A partial skeleton dating back more than two million years is the most complete yet of Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the ...

A rare Homo habilis skeleton from Kenya reveals how early humans moved, climbed, and adapted more than two million years ago.

Modern humans are the latest in a long line of creatures belonging to the Homo genus, although until now we knew relatively ...

An international research team has unveiled a significant discovery in human paleontology: an exceptionally well-preserved ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...