H. habilis has been called the oldest known member within the Homo genus, though not without controversy and ongoing debate. By many scientists’ accounts, the species was likely walking upright on ...

Homo sapiens had a rival cousin as recently as 236,000 years ago, according to discoveries made by a team of scientists in South Africa. ... such as Homo rudolfensis and Homo habilis, ...

And when the Leakeys were pondering Homo habilis, they used a definition of Homo from 1955, which said that to be a member of the genus, you had to have some number of features in common with the ...

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.

The Homo genus began approximately 2.3 million years ago with Homo Habilis, the first species in this lineage, which led to modern humans, Homo sapiens sapiens. Fossils of Homo Habilis were found ...

Homo habilis. The earliest known member of the genus Homo is Homo habilis, which evolved over 2.4 million years ago. Fossils of this species have been discovered in present-day Tanzania, ...

Habilis was once thought to be the first hominid to use tools, but evidence now suggests that tool use may somewhat predate its run. Homo erectus had bodies much like those of modern humans.

Homo habilis ("handy man", "skillful person") is a species of the genus Homo, which lived from approximately 2.5 million to 1.8 million years ago at the beginning of the Pleistocene. The ...