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.

For 60 years, the earliest known human species has also been one of the most mysterious. Homo habilis was added to our family tree in 1964. But it's long been unclear exactly what the ancient species, ...

The fossils of our earliest ancestors found in South Africa are a million years older than previously thought, meaning they walked the Earth around the same time as their East African relatives like ...

The versatile hand of Australopithecus sediba makes a better candidate for an early tool-making hominin than the hand of Homo habilis The extraordinary manipulative skills of the human hand are viewed ...

For decades, palaeoanthropologists have argued about what the australopithecines — the small-brained, bipedal ancestors that ...

So, over the past few months I have been downloading some scanned 3d files of hominin skulls (human ancestors) and printing them out. A number of museums have made their scans available to the public, ...

'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 cranium of the juvenile skeleton of Australopithecus sediba.Brett Eloff / Courtesy of Lee Berger and the University of Witwatersrand One August day in 2008, a pair of nine-year-old boys crossed ...

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 ...