Dust and sun define field seasons in East Turkana. So do patience and sharp eyes. In northern Kenya, a set of bones pulled from the ground has now changed what scientists can say about one of your ...

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.

Paleoanthropologists have announced the world's most complete skeleton of Homo habilis, a human ancestor that lived more than 2 million years ago in northern Kenya. The collection of fossil bones has ...

Homo habilis was named for its association with early stone tools and has often been presented as the first species in the Homo genus. Fossils from Olduvai Gorge and Lake Turkana show a small-bodied, ...

Human ancestors were all hominins, but not every species that came before us belonged to the Homo (human) genus. The earliest members of that particular group have long been thought to be Homo habilis ...

We’re taught that human evolution was a clean, logical process… but the truth is far more disturbing. The first “humans,” known as Homo habilis, weren’t powerful hunters or intelligent beings—they ...

These files consist of 3D scans of historical objects in the collections of the Smithsonian and may be downloaded by you only for non-commercial, educational, and ...

These files consist of 3D scans of historical objects in the collections of the Smithsonian and may be downloaded by you only for non-commercial, educational, and ...