Just less than two and a half million years ago, in the Early Pleistocene epoch of Eastern Africa, a group of hairy, bipedal ...

While Habilis loved a hot cut of meat, she probably didn’t do much big-game hunting. Most of the animal bones scientists have found near her fossils and tools are from the beasts’ extremities.

Louis S.B. Leakey, alongside co-authors Phillip Tobias and John Napier, published the first paper on H. habilis in Nature in 1964.. That work addressed three key elements to meet the definition of ...

That simple tool exists because 1.8 million years ago, a Homo habilis picked out a rock, worked the stone into the right shape, and then used it to do something.

These tools, which may be the oldest of their kind ever discovered, ... For years, scientists believed that only hominins from the genus Homo, such as Homo habilis, created and used stone tools.

Humans, uniquely, are dependent on tools — including stone tools — for survival but the origins of this reliance on technology is shrouded in mystery. A new discovery of such tools has shown ...

Even today, paleoanthropologists believe that Homo habilis transformed smoothly into Homo erectus, which gave rise to Homo sapiens. Because these ancient tools are not associated with human ...

Early humans made tools out of bone 1.5 million years ago : Short Wave Archeologists know early humans used stone to make tools long before the time of Homo sapiens.

WASHINGTON — Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. ... The tools may have been made and used by Homo erectus, Homo habilis or Paranthropus ...

Louis S.B. Leakey, alongside co-authors Phillip Tobias and John Napier, published the first paper on H. habilis in Nature in 1964.. That work addressed three key elements to meet the definition of ...