Homo habilis wasn’t powerful, fast, or dominant. What it had was something new: intention. By shaping tools, it changed the ...

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.

The analysis of dental remains from Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia has important implications regarding the balance and ...

In 2003, archaeologists from Indonesia and Australia discovered the bones of a new species of human, named Homo floresiensis, in a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores. Its short stature – about ...

Dominant hand preference in humans is a trait that scientists are still trying to understand, but new evidence may show that whatever its purpose, the existence of dominant hands might stretch back ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Researchers have traditionally used differences among fossilized remains of ancient humans to define separate species among the earliest members ...

A transitional fossil in a period we have little on “One of paleoanthropology’s main research goals has been to fiddle the temporal and evolutionary gap between these early and later phenomena,” ...

Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But ...

As more and more fossil ancestors have been found, our genus has become more and more inclusive, incorporating more members that look less like us, Homo sapiens. By getting to know these other ...

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. The definition of ...