The face of the individual is prognathic (projects forward under the nose: see the third photograph down), as in other H. habilis individuals, but not quite to the extent of the earlier ...

The Homo genus started approximately 2.3 million years ago when a new species evolved and was distinctly different from the ...

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, the line between human and ape begins to blur.

Perhaps the bias against left-handers dates back much further than we thought. By examining striations on teeth of a Homo habilis fossil, researchers have found the earliest evidence for right ...

The discovery suggests that Homo habilis preferred using its right hand over its left – just like 90% of us. Unlike humans, the ratio between left-handed and right-handed in apes is closer to 50-50.

A new book suggests the first tools may have been invented by female Homo habilis to feed herself An excerpt from ‘Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution,’ by Cat ...

The face of the individual is prognathic (projects forward under the nose: see the third photograph down), as in other H. habilis individuals, but not quite to the extent of the earlier ...