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.

more primitive hominin such as Homo habilis or Australopithecus afarensis. “It’s clear from the small size of the teeth and ...

In 1931, at the age of 28, Louis Leakey made his first trip to Olduvai Gorge, in what is now Tanzania. His goal: to prove ...

By around 2.5 million years ago a more recent ancestor - Homo habilis or 'man, the toolmaker' appears to have evolved. It is not clear whether Homo habilis developed directly from Australopithecus ...

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 ...

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 ...

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?

R. DNA divergence among hominoids. Evolution 43, 925-942 (1989). Chamberlain, A.T. Variations within Homo habilis. In Hominidae: Proceedings of the 2nd International Congress of Human Paleontology.

Encontrar fósiles de hace casi dos millones de años, descubrir las primeras herramientas humanas, hallar restos de un elefante descuartizado por los primeros homo habilis... Éste es el objetivo ...

Fue apodado hobbit por su baja estatura, de poco más de un metro. El hallazgo hace 20 años en la isla indonesia de Flores de una especie extinta del género Homo bautizada como Homo ...