Homo habilis ("handy man") is an extinct species of archaic human from the Early Pleistocene of East and South Africa about 2.3–1.65 million years ago (mya). Upon species description in 1964, H.

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 ...

The serendipitous discoveries of the Taung Child’s cranium in 1924, the first evidence of the species Homo habilis at Olduvai Gorge in the 1960s, and Lucy’s 3-million-year-old bones ...

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 ...

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?

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 ...