Dominant hand preference in humans is a trait that scientists are still trying to understand, but new evidence may show ... proof for right handedness in Homo habilis, a pre-human homo species ...

By examining striations on teeth of a Homo habilis fossil, researchers have found the earliest evidence for right-handedness in the fossil record dating back 1.8 million years. Perhaps the bias ...

which are found in abundance around the fossil discovery site. The jawbone’s teeth, still firmly in place, are covered in diagonal scratches that were most likely made when this Homo habilis ...

In a rare congruence of new evidence, two fossil jaws cast a ... A new reconstruction of this fossil Homo habilis skull, called Olduvai Hominid 7, finds a mix of primitive and more modern traits ...

In fact, Homo habilis means “handy man,” and its ... Homo erectus is also the first species that we have fossil evidence for outside of Africa. They made it as far as China and Indonesia ...

On top of Homo sapiens, at least eight other ... Anatomically speaking, it was also relatively similar to H. habilis, although fossil evidence shows the species had a notably bigger skull.

Researchers who first examined the Taiwan fossil dubbed it Penghu 1 and classified it as an unknown Homo species. Two lines of evidence now put Penghu 1, a right lower jaw that retains four cheek ...

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