An international research team has unveiled a significant discovery in human paleontology: an exceptionally well-preserved ...

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 statistical analysis was made of cheek teeth of Plio/Pleistocene hominids. Samples used were Kenya National Museum specimens usually classified as Homo habilis and Australopithecus boisei, and ...

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 ...

That has all happened within the last 150 years. When the Australopithecus were finally done with 2 million years of gathering, Homo habilis came along. These handy men and women had the ability to ...

When it comes to names, it's certainly a hard one to pronounce or spell but that hasn't kept an old - as in really, really old - lady from making the news today. Lucy the Australopithecus is what ...

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That’s kind of the state of affairs in human evolution, especially now that a new branch of the clan has crawled out of some anthropological backwater and horned its way into the party.