Homo habilis ("handy man") is an extinct species of archaic human from the Early Pleistocene of East and South Africa about 2.3–1.65 million years ago (mya). Upon species description in 1964, H.

A 1.5-million-year-old skull and an equally old jaw found in Kenya are helping rewrite the history of early man, eliminating one reputed ancestor from the human lineage and suggesting that another was ...

A trove of fossil skulls, teeth and bones more than a million years old and discovered in Africa has opened a new controversy over the lineage of our early human ancestors: Just who descended from ...

When anthropologists unearthed the remains of our most ancient ancestor, they named him Homo Habilis, or Handy Man, because he had learned to use tools. If there was a leak at the back of the cave, or ...

DGIST announced that Dr. Jinung An, Principal Research Scientist in Convergence Research Institute, found clues to explain the origin of 'human hand motor skill.' According to the Dr. An, We, humans, ...

When anthropologists unearthed the remains of our most ancient ancestor, they named him Homo Habilis, or Handy Man, because he had learned to use tools. If there was a leak at the back of the cave, or ...