Their species name is well known, but until recently we’ve understood very little for certain about Homo habilis. Columnist ...

ARUSHA: THE wind sweeps across jagged cliffs and deep ravines at Olduvai Gorge, carrying whispers of footsteps that walked ...

Fossils from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, dated to 315,000 years ago, represent the oldest known Homo sapiens remains. Found alongside Middle Stone Age tools and evidence of fire use, they challenge ...

Much of Messina’s cultural memory was destroyed in a 1908 earthquake, but the Italian government has secured a masterpiece by the port city’s greatest son On 28 December 1908, the city of Messina was ...

Humans are the only primates with a chin, leaving biologists to wonder why we acquired this unique feature. According to a new analysis of head anatomy in apes, it probably didn’t evolve for a ...

The homo habilis means “handy man”. They generally lived in Africa, specifically Eastern and Southern. They lived 2.4 to 1.4 million years ago. Paleoanthropologists have been unable to determine ...

Nearly half a million years ago – far earlier than researchers once believed – early humans were already building wooden structures. The finds date to at least 476,000 years ago, long before modern ...

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