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 at ...

A reconstructed Homo habilis skull based on the bones of the 1.8-million-year-old type specimen Olduvai Hominid 7 (OH 7) from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Transparent parts are based on cranium KNM-ER ...

While Neanderthals and even Homo erectus have become fixtures in the human origin story, a lesser-known predecessor appears to predate all the others: Homo habilis. By many scientists’ accounts, the ...

The discovery comes from a 1.8-million-year-old upper jawbone of Homo habilis, a human ancestor who lived in eastern and southern Africa from 2.4 to 1.4 million years ago. Scientists suspect the ...

When paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey discovered the 1.8 million-year-old Homo habilis in 1964, it was thought to be our first human ancestor. Because of its close proximity to stone tools ...

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.

Broom, R., and Schepers, G. W. H., The South African Fossil Ape-men: The Australopithecinae. Transvaal Mus. Mem., No. 6 (1946). Broom, R., and Robinson, J. T ...

Spoor said it seems to have captured a crucial point in the evolutionary process where our ancestors transitioned from Homo habilis to Homo erectus — although the study authors said that ...

A study published in Journal of Human Evolution finds proof for right handedness in Homo habilis, a pre-human homo species that existed 1.8 million years ago. "This is an exciting paper because it ...