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

However, at Olduvai Gorge – the site where Homo habilis's discovery reshaped the human family tree – paleontologists have ...

Discovered and extensively excavated in the mid-20th century, Olduvai has yielded some of the earliest known stone tools, as well as fossils of early hominins like Homo habilis and Homo erectus.

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 ...

boisei walked upright. Homo habilis, which actually means "handy man," is apparently the first species to make and use primitive stone tools. About five feet tall and weighing 100 pounds ...

Anthropologists have said human beings evolved in a straight line from Homo habilis to Homo erectus to us, Homo sapiens, over two million years. But fossil bones found in 2000 near Lake Turkana in ...

The tools may have been made and used by Homo erectus, Homo habilis or Paranthropus boisei. “It could have been any of these three, but it’s almost impossible to know which one,” said Pobiner. The ...