Fossils are like time capsules, offering us a rare chance to glimpse the distant past. Over the years, a number of ancient ...

Writing goes back about 5,000 years, but the spoken words is over a million years old. Psychology, biology and archaeology ...

The bone tools date from more than a million years before our species, Homo sapiens, arose around 300,000 years ago.

He named this species Homo habilis, or the “handy/able man”, due to its presumed ability to make tools. This assessment was based on the discovery of certain cranial bones which indicated a large ...

Comparisons indicate that Homo floresiensis is closely linked to Homo habilis. Nearly 2 million years ago, Homo habilis appeared in Africa, predating even Homo erectus by a small margin. Based on the ...