Homo erectus, Homo habilis and Homo rudolfensis, as we think about them, were more cousins than grandparents. The new idea, says the BBC , would roll the three species into one that would have led ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ) ...

H. habilis has been called the oldest known member within the Homo genus, though not without controversy and ongoing debate. By many scientists’ accounts, the species was likely walking upright on ...

Indeed, in 1964, this was a cornerstone for Louis Leakey (of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania fame) and colleagues creating Homo habilis, ... which gave rise to Homo sapiens.