This fossil upper jawbone, dubbed OH-65, belonged to a Homo habilis individual who lived and died 1.8 million years ago. Her teeth show the earliest evidence for right-handedness in the fossil record.

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

Human evolution had a nice clear line from Lucy 3.2 million years ago to Homo habilis to Homo erectus and finally Homo sapiens -- us. Or so it seemed. A new jawbone shows that humans evolved ...

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 ...

Homo habilis: cranium CC0 Usage Conditions Apply Click for more information. Click to view download files. ... Yet the molars show no sign of wear (the points on the crowns of her teeth are still ...

New fossils from the dawn of the human lineage suggest our ancestors may have lived alongside a diversity of extinct human species, researchers say. Although modern humans, Homo sapiens, are the ...