Homo habilis. By many scientists’ accounts, the species was likely walking upright on Earth more than 2 million years ago — which is to say, nearly 2 million years before Homo sapiens even appeared on ...

says Dr Debbie Argue, lead author of the study. Homo habilis is one of the earliest known hominids, walking the Earth between 2.1 and 1.5 million years ago. Going back earlier than that ...

When paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey discovered the 1.8 million-year-old Homo habilis in 1964, it was thought to be our first human ancestor. Because of its close proximity to stone tools ...

A team of archaeologists recently applied high-tech engineering tests to stone tools, and the results suggest that even very early members of our genus, like Homo habilis, knew how to select rocks ...

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Nature: The wide variability in their features suggests that Homo habilis, Homo rudolfensis and Homo erectus, the species so far identified as existing worldwide in that era, might represent a ...

Spoor said it seems to have captured a crucial point in the evolutionary process where our ancestors transitioned from Homo habilis to Homo erectus — although the study authors said that ...

The discovery comes from a 1.8-million-year-old upper jawbone of Homo habilis, a human ancestor who lived in eastern and southern Africa from 2.4 to 1.4 million years ago. Scientists suspect the ...

such as Homo rudolfensis and Homo habilis, were wandering around Africa. According to the science website Phys.org, experts had predicted that the fossils should be from around the same era ...

The second line included Homo habilis, a species known from 1.8-million-year-old jaw, braincase and hand fossils found in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge in 1960. But Zollikofer says shape differences ...

Modern humans are far from the only species in the Homo genus. Here are others that went extinct long ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.