And, in fact, simple stone tools have been found near some of the earliest H. habilis remains identified by anthropologists. An enlarged brain case also distinguishes this species from our more ...

erectus complete skull within walking distance of an upper jaw of the H. habilis, and both dated from the same general time period. That makes it unlikely that H. erectus evolved from H.

Key and his colleagues wanted to know whether H. habilis and H. erectus knew how to choose the most practical materials for specific tools or jobs. To find out, the archaeologists compared the ...

Blumenschine’s team excavated the H. habilis jaw in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge. Fossil hunters had found the original H. habilis specimen, a lower jaw, in the same gorge nearly 40 years ago.

This means AL 666-1’s owner couldn’t have been an ancestor of H. habilis, and any joint ancestor must have been from much earlier. The digitally reconstructed skull above shows the handy man ...

These marks showed similarities with those found on the H. habilis fossil. The team's idea is that ancient pre-humans used their mouth and left hand to hold meat, while they sliced it into smaller ...

Researchers now think this species enjoyed a broader diet than earlier proto-humans, such as H. habilis, which lived around 2.3 to 1.6 million years ago. Like detectives, the scientists looked for ...

David Frayer, a paleoanthropologist and professor emeritus at the University of Kansas, observed abnormal scratches on the teeth of an H. habilis fossil approximately a decade ago. Most of these ...

As Professor Stringer said: “The intentional disposal of dead bodies is a surprisingly complex behaviour for a creature with a brain no bigger than H. habilis or a gorilla.” Another unanswered ...

Researchers now think this species enjoyed a broader diet than earlier proto-humans, such as H. habilis, which lived around 2.3 to 1.6 million years ago. Like detectives, the scientists looked for ...