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.

The brain of one of the oldest Australopithecus individuals ever found was a little bit ape-like and a little bit human. The modern human brain owes a lot to these small, hairy human ancestors, but we ...

The versatile hand of Australopithecus sediba makes a better candidate for an early tool-making hominin than the hand of Homo habilis The extraordinary manipulative skills of the human hand are viewed ...

Archaeologists have long linked ancient tool use to the beginning of human history. Homo habilis, the theory goes, was the "handy man" who used tools and served as the intermediary species between the ...

The cranium of the juvenile skeleton of Australopithecus sediba.Brett Eloff / Courtesy of Lee Berger and the University of Witwatersrand One August day in 2008, a pair of nine-year-old boys crossed ...

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