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.

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 ...

Homo habilis, and Homo rudolfensis, for example. But an amazing new skull found in a republic of Georgia suggests that the specimens previously representing different species could come from a ...

The discovery of a 1.8-million-year-old skull of a human ancestor buried ... process where our ancestors transitioned from Homo habilis to Homo erectus — although the study authors said that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...