Humans, uniquely, are dependent on tools — including stone tools — for survival but the origins of this reliance on technology is shrouded in mystery. A new discovery of such tools has shown ...

Until now, some thought that Homo habilis - known as "handy man" - was the earliest of our ancestors in the Homo genus to use tools. But with Homo fossils dating back to only 2.4-2.3 million years ...

Tools were made from bones as well as stones in East Africa 1.5 million years ago, new research reveals. The finding adds to ...

That simple tool exists because 1.8 million years ago, a Homo habilis picked out a rock, worked the stone into the right shape, and then used it to do something.

Just less than two and a half million years ago, in the Early Pleistocene epoch of Eastern Africa, a group of hairy, bipedal apes evolved, and soon after, began to use basic stone tools. They didn ...

Louis S.B. Leakey, alongside co-authors Phillip Tobias and John Napier, published the first paper on H. habilis in Nature in 1964.. That work addressed three key elements to meet the definition of ...

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.

In this year alone, the media has been treated to announcements of firsts in human evolution: the earliest stone tools [~3.3 million years (ma), Kenya], the earliest member of our genus, Homo (~2. ...

When paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey discovered the 1.8 million-year-old Homo habilis in 1964, it was thought to be our first human ancestor. Because of its close proximity to stone tools, Homo ...

Though chimps use tools today, and Lucy also used primitive stone tools, the Oldowan style – adopted by later australopithecines and finally by Habilis and Homo erectus after her – was our ...

Louis S.B. Leakey, alongside co-authors Phillip Tobias and John Napier, published the first paper on H. habilis in Nature in 1964.. That work addressed three key elements to meet the definition of ...