Blumenschine’s team excavated the H. habilis jaw in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge. Fossil hunters had found the original H. habilis specimen, a lower jaw, in the same gorge nearly 40 years ago.

Louis S.B. Leakey, alongside co-authors Phillip Tobias and John Napier, published the first paper on H. habilis in Nature in 1964.. That work addressed three key elements to meet the definition of ...

Three different Homo species existed between 2.1 and 1.6 million years ago: Homo erectus and Homo rudolfensis, as well as H. habilis.. The skull reconstruction caused a stir this week ...

H. habilis is the earliest known member of the genus Homo.And H. erectus was the first human ancestor to resemble modern humans. Due to the many overlaps in their anatomy, it was previously ...

Researchers now think this species enjoyed a broader diet than earlier proto-humans, such as H. habilis, which lived around 2.3 to 1.6 million years ago. Tooth marks.

After 40 years of searching, researchers can finally put a new face on a mysterious human ancestor whose skull was discovered 40 years ago in Kenya. The find shows that several species of Homo ...