They believe the hobbit is descended from a more primitive relative of Homo erectus such as Homo habilis, which lived as early as 2.3 million years ago - before hominids are believed to have left ...

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 ...

The findings help fill a gap in humankind’s history, sliding in between the famous 3-million-year-old skeleton of “Lucy” and the “handy man” Homo habilis, which was found to be using ...

The skeleton of Homo naledi pictured in the Wits bone vault at the Evolutionary Studies Institute at the ... dated to about 1.9 million years ago with a larger brain size than earlier H. habilis.

In this video, discover Homo habilis, the first species in the Homo genus and a key figure in human evolution. Delve into ...

Just less than two and a half million years ago, in the Early Pleistocene epoch of Eastern Africa, a group of hairy, bipedal apes evolved, and soon after, began to use basic stone tools. They didn't ...

The versatile hand of Australopithecus sediba makes a better candidate for an early tool-making hominin than the hand of Homo habilis ...

The hand found is more complete than that of the Homo habilis, and therefore allows for more conclusions to be drawn. It is more modern, although Homo habilis is 200,000 to 300,000 years younger.

New fossils from the dawn of the human lineage suggest our ancestors may have lived alongside a diversity of extinct human species, researchers say. Although modern humans, Homo sapiens, are the ...

Homo sapiens had a rival cousin as recently as ... which included one of the most complete skeleton of the species ever found as well as the ... such as Homo rudolfensis and Homo habilis, ...

The findings help fill a gap in humankind’s history, sliding in between the famous 3-million-year-old skeleton of “Lucy” and the “handy man” Homo habilis, which was found to be using ...