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.

For example, he wonders about Homo habilis, an extinct human species that lived about two million years ago. "It would be great to know whether Homo habilis was eating as much meat as some people ...

more primitive hominin such as Homo habilis or Australopithecus afarensis. “It’s clear from the small size of the teeth and humerus we found that extreme body size reduction evolved very early ...

The serendipitous discoveries of the Taung Child’s cranium in 1924, the first evidence of the species Homo habilis at Olduvai Gorge in the 1960s, and Lucy’s 3-million-year-old bones ...

New evidence suggests that certain early human ancestors rarely consumed meat, adding new information to the timeline of ...

It's long been thought our species was unique in its ability to adapt to harsh climates like bone-dry deserts or thick-set rainforests.

africanus. Like all of the other Autralopithecus species, A. boisei walked upright. Homo habilis, which actually means "handy man," is apparently the first species to make and use primitive stone ...

Humans butchered a rhino in a remote part of the Philippines 700,000 years ago, but who were they and how did they get there?

La impresionante primera secuencia muda y en cámara lenta de la cinta “2001: Odisea del espacio”, de Stanley Kubrick, se convirtió desde que la vi en una de las metáforas fílmicas que más ...