Modern human genomes and bones left behind from ancient hominins in Africa tell a complex story about the origins of our species. A series of rodent experiments showed that even with abundant food and ...

The serendipitous discoveries of the Taung Child’s cranium in 1924, the first evidence of the species Homo habilis at Olduvai ...

By around 2.5 million years ago a more recent ancestor - Homo habilis or 'man, the toolmaker' appears to have evolved. It is not clear whether Homo habilis developed directly from Australopithecus ...

This skull, attributed to Homo habilis, is small, with a cranial capacity of just 510 cubic centimeters. Most Homo habilis skulls have a larger cranial capacity, around 600 cubic centimeters ...

africanus. Like all of the other Autralopithecus species, A. boisei walked upright. Homo habilis, which actually means "handy man," is apparently the first species to make and use primitive stone ...

The newly discovered bone tools, which consist of 27 deliberately split and chipped large mammal long bones, were recovered ...

The discovery joins other finds — such as a 1.4-million-year-old bone axe from Ethiopia — that suggest the human ancestor Homo erectus ... replaced H. habilis in the region, somewhere between ...

Humans butchered a rhino in a remote part of the Philippines 700,000 years ago, but who were they and how did they get there?

Homo habilis, or Paranthropus boisei. “It could have been any of these three, but it’s almost impossible to know which one,” said Pobiner.

Stone artefacts of Homo habilis from 3 million years ago that have been found near the falls, indicating prolonged occupation of the area dating back to some of the earliest humans. 2014 marks the ...

At first, scientists believed this jawbone belonged to Homo habilis, a well-known early human species. However, further research identified it as belonging to Homo rudolfensis, a different species ...