The Homo genus began approximately 2.3 million years ago with Homo Habilis, the first species in this lineage, ... U.S. Women's Open 2025 leaderboard: Final-round scores, ...

Homo sapiens – that’s us and our direct ancestors, and long thought to be pretty much the only show in town for hundreds of thousands of years – had a rival cousin as recently as 236,000 ...

H. habilis: “Handy man” lived in Africa between 1.5 million and 2.1 million years ago. Is the oldest known member of the Homo genus. H. erectus: “Upright man” is a robust species that ...

This fossil upper jawbone, dubbed OH-65, belonged to a Homo habilis individual who lived and died 1.8 million years ago. Her teeth show the earliest evidence for right-handedness in the fossil record.

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 line between human and ape begins to blur.

One population of H. habilis might have evolved into the earliest indisputable human species – H. erectus. Homo erectus (“upright man”) Discovered: 1891, officially named the following year.

A team of archaeologists recently applied high-tech engineering tests to stone tools, and the results suggest that even very early members of our genus, like Homo habilis, knew how to select rocks ...

Homo habilis (Image credit: Dorling Kindersley via Getty Images). Homo habilis. You may like Human evolution: Facts about the past 300,000 years of Homo sapiens; 2.2 million-year-old teeth reveal ...

It has a cranial capacity of only 510 cubic centimeters, well below the 600 cubic centimeter cutoff that had been in place since the creation of the Homo habilis species name. It is also not much ...