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 ...

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

Cutting of branches from this tree would change what we think about human evolution. Homo erectus, Homo habilis and Homo rudolfensis, as we think about them, were more cousins than grandparents.

On top of Homo sapiens, at least eight other species of our genus have walked Earth: Homo habilis, Homo rudolfensis, Homo erectus, Homo antecessor, Homo heidelbergensis, Homo naledi, Homo ...

Human evolution had a nice clear line from Lucy 3.2 million years ago to Homo habilis to Homo erectus and finally Homo sapiens -- us. Or so it seemed. A new jawbone shows that humans evolved ...

What We Know About Homo Habilis 'Homo habilis' lived at least 2 million years ago in parts of Africa. Learn why experts still aren't sure if this was the first ancient human to exist.

Homo habilis was announced as a new species in 1964, but some researchers believe it should be shifted out of the Homo genus. (Getty Images: DEA/A. Dagli Orti/De Agostini) ...

Even today, paleoanthropologists believe that Homo habilis transformed smoothly into Homo erectus, which gave rise to Homo sapiens.