For the first time ever, scientists have managed to determine the biological sex of an ancient human ancestor that lived in ...

It would seem that H. habilis had, at least by 1.5 mya, the intellectual capacity to transfer an existing manufacturing technique to a new medium which had its own characteristics and challenges.

Most researchers believe H. habilis was bipedal and walked upright, although it would have looked relatively ape-like by our standards. After this pioneering species arrived on the scene ...

The British psychologist Nicholas Humphrey described H. habilis as having “clever brains but blank minds.” Two hundred thousand years later, archeological evidence suggests that Homo erectus ...

erectus and H. habilis. "Two species of the genus Homo, our own genus, lived alongside our direct ancestor, Homo erectus, nearly 2 million years ago," researcher Meave Leakey at the Turkana Basin ...

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 ...

Oldowan tools had been associated with the earliest species in our direct lineage, Homo habilis, whose name means “handy man” because of their association with the use of tools. But no H.

Originally, the skull was attributed to the species Homo habilis, the earliest-known member of the human genus. There were a few problems with this, though. First, the braincase of the skull was quite ...

erectus and H. habilis. Olduwan tools are mostly sharp flakes and very basic tools for chopping, scraping and pounding. They’re much less complex and precise than the tools made by later ...

To shed light on past extinctions of Homo species including H. habilis, H. ergaster, H. erectus, H. heidelbergensis, H. neanderthalensis, and H. sapiens, the researchers relied on a high ...