Hand fossils unearthed in Kenya reveal that an extinct human relative called Paranthropus boisei had unexpected dexterity and ...

Our human ancestors may have been sophisticated tool users 1.76 million years ago. Newly discovered hand axes from that period are the oldest examples of the complex Acheulean culture, 350,000 years ...

Scientists working in a remote region of Kenya have found stone tools dating back 3.3 million years, making them the oldest ever used by our human ancestors. The collection of razor-edged and round ...

The first almost complete set of hand bones from the ancient human relative Paranthropus boisei has been found, revealing a ...

The versatile hand of Australopithecus sediba makes a better candidate for an early tool-making hominin than the hand of Homo habilis The extraordinary manipulative skills of the human hand are viewed ...

Archaeologists in Ethiopia have uncovered skull fragments and tools belonging to Homo erectus, one of the most successful hominins to have ever lived. Importantly, the newly discovered stone tools ...

Homo habilis, discovered in East Africa, has long been called “the handy man” for its association with early stone tools. But scientists now question whether it truly deserves the title of first human ...

Has climate change made us who we are today? A broken and fossilized jawbone found poking up amid sediment in an East African hill is rewriting a significant chapter of human evolution — and adding ...

Fossils from the “handy man” of the human family tree have now provided the oldest known evidence of right-handedness in our lineage. The discovery comes from a 1.8-million-year-old upper jawbone of ...