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Fossils are like time capsules, offering us a rare chance to glimpse the distant past. Over the years, a number of ancient ...

erectus — a small-brained predecessor to species including modern humans and Neanderthals — replaced H. habilis in the region, somewhere between 1.8 and 1.5 million years ago. The team describes 27 ...

Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 ...

A cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools uncovered in Tanzania suggest ancient human ancestors were capable of critical ...

“Out of Africa” has some plausible ideas, namely that Homo erectus advanced and went into colder climates and became Homo heidelbergensis, which led linearly to modern humanity. However, that requires ...

These were not just random tools made opportunistically, but show a consistent manufacturing process that must have been ...

He named this species Homo habilis, or the “handy/able man”, due to its presumed ability to make tools. This assessment was based on the discovery of certain cranial bones which indicated a large ...

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At the time, at least three different hominin species lived in the region, including Homo erectus, Homo habilis, and Paranthropus boisei. While it is unclear which species made the tools ...