By around 2.5 million years ago a more recent ancestor - Homo habilis or 'man, the toolmaker' appears to have evolved. It is not clear whether Homo habilis developed directly from Australopithecus ...

By the 1980s, H. habilis was proposed to have been a human ancestor, directly evolving into Homo erectus which directly led to modern humans. This viewpoint is now debated. Several specimens with ...

HOMO HABILIS By around 2.5 million years ago a more recent ancestor - Homo habilis or 'man, the toolmaker' appears to have evolved. It is not clear whether Homo habilis developed directly from ...

The first known fossils of human ancestors, those of Neanderthals ... the first evidence of the species Homo habilis at Olduvai Gorge in the 1960s, and Lucy’s 3-million-year-old bones ...

A new study of early human ancestors who lived millions of years ... For example, he wonders about Homo habilis, an extinct human species that lived about two million years ago.

The most primitive hominid yet found, this species has more chimpanzee-like features than any other human ancestor ... boisei walked upright. Homo habilis, which actually means "handy man ...