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 ...

A study published in Journal of Human Evolution finds proof for right handedness in Homo habilis, a pre-human ... to be produced by this right-handed behavior. In contrast, he says, just about ...

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 ...

The rows of teeth were “relatively long and positioned parallel to each other,” says Spoor, who compares the jaw of Homo habilis to that ... and you get chances in behavior without changes ...

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 ...

On top of Homo sapiens, at least eight other species of our genus have walked Earth: Homo habilis, Homo rudolfensis, Homo erectus, Homo antecessor, Homo heidelbergensis, Homo naledi, Homo ...

Some scholars believe that behavior is what sets H. sapiens apart from other Homo species — and all other species in the world, for that matter. "There's been a long debate on what to call 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 ...

Hawks said the team believes that members of the species purposefully placed their dead in the chamber, a behavior would ... such as Homo rudolfensis and Homo habilis, were wandering around ...