A NEW species of human with bigger brains and heads has been unearthed, claim Chinese archaeologists. Researchers alleged ...
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.
The fellowship that we call humanity contains some unlikely characters, not least of all a diminutive extinct species known ...
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 ...