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 ...

erectus but also Homo habilis or Homo rudolfensis ... the fossil remains and a location map Diego Rodríguez Robredo “Now we know, back to two million years ago, it’s part of the array ...

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 ...

Modern human genomes and bones left behind from ancient hominins in Africa tell a complex story about the origins of our species. A series of rodent experiments showed that even with abundant food and ...

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 ...

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 ...

In between, there are some Australopithecus fossils, but there’s been very little evidence discovered that could explain where and when the first few Homo species appeared. The blank period is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A study published in Journal of Human Evolution finds proof for right handedness in Homo habilis, a pre-human homo species that existed 1.8 million years ago. "This is an exciting paper because it ...

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