Just less than two and a half million years ago, in the Early Pleistocene epoch of Eastern Africa, a group of hairy, bipedal apes evolved, and soon after, began to use basic stone tools. They didn't ...

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 ...

Meanwhile, Homo habilis was poorly understood, said Fred Spoor, paleontologist at University College London and one of the authors of the study in Nature.For 50 years, adding new fossils to Homo ...

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 ...

Across the world, new examples of the genus Homo emerged, including Homo antecessor in Europe (which may be an evolved habilis or erectus, or an early form of heidelbergensis) about 1.2 million ...

Indeed, in 1964, this was a cornerstone for Louis Leakey (of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania fame) and colleagues creating Homo habilis, which they claimed was the earliest member of the genus.

However, Homo habilis was known to have a relatively big brain and made tools. The researchers came to the conclusion after analysing data on early human fossils and comparing them to various ...

The jaw belongs to the original, or type, specimen of Homo habilis, or "Handy Man," so-called by its discoverers Louis and Mary Leakey in 1964 because it was found in Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania in ...

Louis S.B. Leakey, alongside co-authors Phillip Tobias and John Napier, published the first paper on H. habilis in Nature in 1964.. That work addressed three key elements to meet the definition of ...