What We Know About Homo Habilis 'Homo habilis' lived at least 2 million years ago in parts of Africa. Learn why experts still aren't sure if this was the first ancient human to exist.

In this video, discover Homo habilis, the first species in the Homo genus and a key figure in human evolution. Delve into whether Homo habilis should be classified as a human species or more ...

It is now clear that three separate species of Homo existed between 2.1 and 1.6 million years ago, although not all simultaneously: H. habilis, H. rudolfensis and H. erectus.

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 ...

The face of the individual is prognathic (projects forward under the nose: see the third photograph down), as in other H. habilis individuals, but not quite to the extent of the earlier ...

This fossil upper jawbone, dubbed OH-65, belonged to a Homo habilis individual who lived and died 1.8 million years ago. Her teeth show the earliest evidence for right-handedness in the fossil record.

The new finds confirm that at least two species of Homo lived in Africa 2 million years ago. In the 1960s, Louis and Mary Leakey discovered the species H. habilis while working at Tanzania’s ...

Two new fossil discoveries have fueled scientific debates about the evolutionary status of a pair of species traditionally considered to have been our direct ancestors, Homo habilis and Homo erectus.

Homo habilis, an early member of our own genus, was thought to have had the plains of Africa to itself 2 million years ago, but the 1.9-million-year-old skull didn’t quite fit with the known ...

NMNH - Anthropology Dept. Original Object Identifier KNM-ER 1813 Species Homo habilis dpo_3d_200061 NMNHANTHRO NMNH - Anthropology Dept.