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.

A new study of wrist bones suggests human ancestors may have shared a knuckle-walking past with chimpanzees and gorillas.

The team tested major theories for handedness, including diet, habitat, body mass, social structures, tool use, and ...

59,000 years ago in what’s now southwestern Siberia, a Neanderthal had a toothache. It must have been a doozy because they were desperate enough to sit still while someone drilled into the tooth with ...

Learn about the similarities between the wrist bones of humans and African apes, which may point to shared knuckle-walking ...

A nine-year-old boy, Matt Berger, stumbled upon fossils during a field trip with his paleoanthropologist father in South Africa. These accidental finds led to the identification of a new human ...

Homo heidelbergensis ("Heidelberg Man") is an extinct, potentially distinct species of the genus Homo and may be the direct ancestor of Homo neanderthalensis in Europe. According to the "Recent Out of ...

Homo ergaster ("working man") is an extinct hominid species (or subspecies, according to some authorities) which lived throughout eastern and southern Africa between 1.9 to 1.4 million years ago with ...

Homo economicus represents humans as rational decision-makers, maximizing profit and utility. Behavioral economics shows human decisions often deviate from perfect rationality. The model assumes ...

Homo habilis has long been described as the first species in the Homo genus, but its place in human evolution remains controversial. Fossils from Tanzania and Kenya show a mix of humanlike and ...