The Homo genus started approximately 2.3 million years ago when a new species evolved and was distinctly different from the Australopithecines that used to roam the African continent. This is 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 ...

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.

One lineage, he says, included the 2.3-million-year-old Hadar jaw, which displays a wide, deep palate and small teeth characteristic of the Homo genus. The second line included Homo habilis, a ...

This jawbone pushes back the evolutionary origins of our genus by nearly half a million years, researchers reported today. Paleontologists working in Ethiopia have uncovered the lower jaw and five ...

This is a reconstruction of the skull of one of the first known members of the human genus, Homo habilis , which means "handy man", from about 1.8 million years ago.

The fossilized jaw of a 1.8 million-year-old human ancestor (hominid) from Tanzania may just be one of the five best specimens out of about 50 known to represent the earliest members of the genus ...

New fossils described in the journal Nature this week seem to close the door on a controversy that has raged for 40 years. They also confirm that the beginnings of the human genus more than 2m ...

The remains of the 1.8-million-year-old hominid are said to rank among the best specimens yet discovered of the earliest members of our genus, Homo. Writing in the journal Science, Rutgers University ...

WASHINGTON — A 2.8-million-year-old jawbone fossil with five intact teeth unearthed in an Ethiopian desert is pushing back the dawn of humankind by about half a million years.