EarlyHumans. Homo Habilis: The First 'Humans' | Prehistoric Humans Documentary. Posted: June 18, 2025 | Last updated: June 18, 2025. Just less than two and a half million years ago, in the Early ...

In this video, discover Homo habilis, the first species in the Homo genus and a key figure in human evolution. Delve into whether Homo habilis should be classified as a human species or more ...

Homo habilis | 3 min read. Paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey Dies at Age 77. The Kenyan fossil finder is known for his discoveries of various Stone Age artifacts and ancient human skulls and ...

The Homo habilis fossil is from Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge, one of the richest fossil sites containing ancient hominin remains. The specimen is more than 1.3 million years older than the next ...

Indeed, in 1964, this was a cornerstone for Louis Leakey (of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania fame) and colleagues creating Homo habilis, which they claimed was the earliest member of the genus.

The Leakeys decided that Homo habilis shared three important traits with the other members of our genus: It had an upright posture; it was bipedal, and it had the manual dexterity to make tools.

Handier than Homo habilis? Versatile hand of Australopithecus sediba makes a better candidate for an early tool-making hominin Date: September 9, 2011 ...

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.

Meanwhile, a separate group of researchers took a fresh look at a 1.8 million-year-old set of Homo habilis fossils from Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge, known as OH 7 or "Jonny's Child." ...

Here’s what’s happening in the region beginning Thursday and continuing through July 17: • Thursday, Critical Thinking Series presents "The Amazing – But Not Always Reliable – Human Brain: From Homo ...

A study published in Journal of Human Evolution finds proof for right handedness in Homo habilis, a pre-human homo species that existed 1.8 million years ago.