The Homo genus began approximately 2.3 million years ago with Homo Habilis, the first species in this lineage, which led to modern humans, Homo sapiens sapiens. Fossils of Homo Habilis were found ...

Homo habilis ("handy man", "skillful person") is a species of the genus Homo, which lived from approximately 2.5 million to 1.8 million years ago at the beginning of the Pleistocene. The ...

In 1964 Louis Leakey and his colleagues announced the new species Homo habilis, or Handy man, as the earliest known member of our human evolutionary lineage.Central to the newly recognised species was ...

'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. The Magazine; ... The Latin name for this ...

A trove of fossil skulls, teeth and bones more than a million years old and discovered in Africa has opened a new controversy over the lineage of our early human ancestors: Just who descended from ...

Some of the more important examples of this group are Homo habilis (“handy man”), Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis. A rendering of Homo habilis. Cristina Arias/Getty Images.