Dominant hand preference in humans is a trait that scientists are still trying to understand, but new evidence may show ... proof for right handedness in Homo habilis, a pre-human homo species ...

By examining striations on teeth of a Homo habilis fossil, researchers have found the earliest evidence for right-handedness in the fossil record dating back 1.8 million years. Perhaps the bias ...

which are found in abundance around the fossil discovery site. The jawbone’s teeth, still firmly in place, are covered in diagonal scratches that were most likely made when this Homo habilis ...

Researchers who first examined the Taiwan fossil dubbed it Penghu 1 and classified it as an unknown Homo species. Two lines of evidence now put Penghu 1, a right lower jaw that retains four cheek ...

The Spanish fossil is the first evidence that clearly shows human ancestors ... The partial skull bears many similarities to Homo erectus, but there are also some anatomical differences, said ...

there are three different species that we have fossil evidence for,” she added. “We have Paranthropus boisei, we have Homo erectus and we have Homo habilis. So really any of them could have ...

That question is unlikely to be answered until more fossil ... really made Homo erectus a better ancestral form." But these new findings, specifically the teeth, show clear evidence of the ...

On top of Homo sapiens, at least eight other ... Anatomically speaking, it was also relatively similar to H. habilis, although fossil evidence shows the species had a notably bigger skull.

Ancient Homo fossil teeth reveal that hominin dental growth rates began to slow before there was a major increase in brain size compared with apes. Read the paper: Dental evidence for extended ...

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LAWRENCE -- Perhaps the bias against left-handers dates back much further than we thought. By examining striations on teeth of a Homo habilis fossil, a new discovery led by a University of Kansas ...