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 ...

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

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 ...

Homo habilis Image Richard Leakey, son of Mary and Louis Leakey, in 1977 holding an Australopithecus skull in his right hand, and that of Homo habilis in his left.

Tools were made from bones as well as stones in East Africa 1.5 million years ago, new research reveals. The finding adds to ...

A composite reconstruction of the earliest known Homo sapiens fossils from Jebel Irhoud (Morocco) dated to 300,000 years ago. [Photo: Philipp Gunz, MPI EVA Leipzig ] ...

Homo sapiens first migrated from Africa about 100,000 years ago to the Levant, where Neanderthals lived but failed to gain a foothold there. However, about 70,000 years ago, ...

The face of the individual is prognathic (projects forward under the nose: see the third photograph down), as in other H. habilis individuals, but not quite to the extent of the earlier ...

The study, published in the journal Nature, opens new tab and involving the oldest Homo sapiens DNA ever sequenced, gave a date range for the mixing of about 49,000 to 45,000 years ago.