Chimps apply engineering skills to select tools with the right characteristic for hunting termites. This can teach us more ...

Homo habilis was an individual whose larger brain size enabled it to manufacture simple stone tools, usually pebbles which were split and then chipped to give a cutting edge. Such technology is ...

Some developed powerful teeth and jaws and became known as 'robust' while others were more lightly built and dubbed 'gracile'. HOMO HABILIS By around 2.5 million years ago a more recent ancestor ...

In the past, we didn't know how long Homo habilis had survived. After we found this upper jaw, we were surprised when the geologists told us that it was only 1.44 million years old. Both Homo ...

They were thought to have used simple stone tools ... as well as fossils of early hominins like Homo habilis and Homo erectus. As it turns out, Olduvai Gorge still has much more to give.

Homo habilis, which actually means "handy man ... Averaging five and a half feet in height and possessing short limbs, Neanderthals were well-adapted to living in a cold climate.

The researchers from the University of New England in Australia and the East Tennessee State University in the United States found that biting with high force risked damaging jaw joints, indicating ...

The groups analyzed were: Homo sapiens, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo heidelbergensis (African and Eurasian populations), Homo erectus and African Homo (Homo ergaster and Homo habilis). Likewise ...