An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the ...

Modern humans are the latest in a long line of creatures belonging to the Homo genus, although until now we knew relatively ...

'Homo habilis' lived at least 2 million years ago in parts of Africa. Learn why experts still aren't sure if this was the first ancient human to exist. If there’s one thing that paleoanthropology has ...

The Sterkfontein caves at the Cradle of Humankind world heritage site southwest of Johannesburg have yielded more Australopithecus fossils than any other site in the world. Among them was "Mrs Ples", ...

That has all happened within the last 150 years. When the Australopithecus were finally done with 2 million years of gathering, Homo habilis came along. These handy men and women had the ability to ...