In 1931, the Skhūl I fossil was uncovered at Mugharat es-Skhūl (the Cave of the Children), also known as Skhūl Cave, Israel.

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 at ...

Most Homo habilis skulls have a larger cranial capacity, around 600 cubic centimeters, which led to some confusion about its classification.

They called it Homo habilis, or the “handy man”, due to the presence of stone tools near its remains – tools which, the Leakeys said, the ancient human had crafted themselves.

Homo habilis lived 2.4 million to 1.4 million years ago, and Homo erectus lived 1.89 million to 110,000 years ago. Previously, scientists thought these early humans had brains much like modern humans.

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 ...

BOOK EXCERPT A new book suggests the first tools may have been invented by female Homo habilis to feed herself An excerpt from ‘Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human ...

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.