In 2000 Leakey found an old H. erectus complete skull within walking distance of an upper jaw of the H. habilis, and both dated from the same general time period.

And what a skull it is. It suggests that the earliest known members of the Homo genus (H. habilis, H. rudolfensis and H. erectus) may not have been distinct, coexisting species, at all.

Homo habilis -- “handy man” -- is the oldest representative of the genus Homo, dating from about 2.5 million years ago. The species was defined by Mary and Louis Leakey based on fossils found ...

Meet the digital handy man. This is a reconstruction of the skull of one of the first known members of the human genus, Homo habilis, which means “handy man”, from about 1.8 million years ago ...

In 2000 Leakey found an old H. erectus complete skull within walking distance of an upper jaw of the H. habilis, and both dated from the same general time period.

The skull, known as KNM-ER 1470, sort of looked like H. habilis, but was different in several key ways, such as being much bigger with a flatter face.

Scientists usually sort the African fossils into four species: H. habilis, H. rudolfensis, H. ergaster and H. erectus. A 1.8-million-year-old Homo erectus skull discovered in western Asia combines ...

Telling H. erectus and H. habilis apart starts with the teeth. H. habilis had larger molars, an indication that the species ate more vegetation.

Until now anthropologists have held that the ancestral line of early humans went from H. habilis to H. erectus, the direct evolutionary ancestor of all us true Homo sapiens who first emerged on ...

What We Know About Homo Habilis '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.

A Kenyan-based research team has found ancient evidence that undermines the idea humans evolved in a more or less straight line from Homo habilis to Homo erectus to Homo sapiens.