While Neanderthals and even Homo erectus have become fixtures in the human origin story, a lesser-known predecessor appears to predate all the others: Homo habilis. By many scientists ... since their ...

Meet the digital handy man. This is a reconstruction of the skull of one of the first known members of the human genus, Homo habilis, which means “handy man”, from about 1.8 million years ago.

A new reconstruction of this fossil Homo habilis skull, called Olduvai Hominid 7, finds a mix of primitive and more modern traits, including a larger brain than previously thought, suggesting a ...

Many ancient Homo species are identified from a few samples—sometimes even a single one. All we have of some of our ancient evolutionary ancestors is skull ... that Homo habilis, Homo ...

Paleoanthropologists have uncovered the intact skull of an early Homo individual ... five contemporary species of early "Homo" in Africa, including "Homo habilis," "Homo rudolfensis," "Homo ...

A reconstructed Homo habilis skull based on the bones of the 1.8-million-year-old type specimen Olduvai Hominid 7 (OH 7) from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Transparent parts are based on cranium KNM-ER ...

Now, however, an unearthed skull is posing something of a problem. The top of its head is relatively small, resembling a humanlike species known as Homo habilis; but its jaw is fairly large ...

The researchers describe in five papers why their finding is more likely to come into consideration than earlier discoveries, like Homo habilis ... consists of a skull measured to have a brain ...

A Kenyan-based research team has found ancient evidence that undermines the idea that humans evolved in a more or less straight line from Homo habilis ... preserved skull of Homo erectus," that ...

He had little luck until a colleague told him a promising skull turned up on a river bank on neighboring ... These tools were markedly more sophisticated than the simple products that Homo habilis, ...

A 1 1/2-million-year-old skull and an equally old jaw found in ... The jawbone shows Homo habilis — thought to be a direct ancestor of Homo erectus and thus of humans — lived side by side ...