In this video, discover Homo habilis, the first species in the Homo genus and a key figure in human evolution. Delve into whether Homo habilis should be classified as a human species or more ...

The wide variability in their features suggests that Homo habilis, Homo rudolfensis and Homo erectus, the species so far identified as existing worldwide in that era, might represent a single species.

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 ...

Homo habilis ("handy man", "skillful person") is a species of the genus Homo, which lived from approximately 2.5 million to 1.8 million years ago at the beginning of the Pleistocene. The ...

And when the Leakeys were pondering Homo habilis, they used a definition of Homo from 1955, which said that to be a member of the genus, you had to have some number of features in common with the ...

A 1.8 million year old skull of a human ancestor buried under a medieval village in Georgia indicates that humans' family tree may have fewer branches than some beleive, scientists say.

Homo habilis. The earliest known member of the genus Homo is Homo habilis, which evolved over 2.4 million years ago. Fossils of this species have been discovered in present-day Tanzania, ...