such as Homo rudolfensis and Homo habilis, were wandering around Africa. According to the science website Phys.org, experts had predicted that the fossils should be from around the same era ...

Homo habilis. By many scientists’ accounts, the species was likely walking upright on Earth more than 2 million years ago — which is to say, nearly 2 million years before Homo sapiens even appeared on ...

Known as the Laetoli footprints, they were probably made by Australopithecus afarensis, too -- again showing that hominins were walking on two feet more than a million years before Homo habilis ...

Her fossil bones provided the earliest clear evidence of bipedalism: walking on two legs ... the more important examples of this group are Homo habilis (“handy man”), Homo erectus and Homo ...

(Homo habilis, or the "handy man," was on the scene ... sediba probably climbed trees sometimes and practiced a unique form of bipedal walking. Bernhard Zipfel from the University of the ...

says Dr Debbie Argue, lead author of the study. 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 presumed tool making abilities of habilis were not enough to convince many anthropologists that they should be named ‘Homo ... much more efficient for walking and running than our ...

On top of Homo sapiens, at least eight other species of our genus have walked Earth: Homo habilis, Homo rudolfensis, Homo erectus, Homo antecessor, Homo heidelbergensis, Homo naledi, Homo ...

The researchers describe in five papers why their finding is more likely to come into consideration than earlier discoveries, like Homo habilis ... bipedal walking, while others are suitable ...