Just less than two and a half million years ago, in the Early Pleistocene epoch of Eastern Africa, a group of hairy, bipedal apes evolved, and soon after, began to use basic stone tools. They didn't ...

For years, scientists believed that only hominins from the genus Homo, such as Homo habilis, created and used stone tools. Researchers had assumed that Paranthropus, with its robust teeth and jaws ...

Modern human genomes and bones left behind from ancient hominins in Africa tell a complex story about the origins of our species. A series of rodent experiments showed that even with abundant food and ...

A blue plaque will be installed at the former home of Louis Leakey in High Street, Foxton, Cambridgeshire. Dr Leakey ...

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 ...

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 ...

africanus. Like all of the other Autralopithecus species, A. boisei walked upright. Homo habilis, which actually means "handy man," is apparently the first species to make and use primitive stone ...

Excavations carried out in the Olduvai Gorge, not far from there, have resulted in the discovery of one of our more distant ancestors, Homo habilis. Laitoli Site, which also lies within the area, is ...

La impresionante primera secuencia muda y en cámara lenta de la cinta “2001: Odisea del espacio”, de Stanley Kubrick, se convirtió desde que la vi en una de las metáforas fílmicas que más ...

La temperatura más baja registrada en el país fue la del 27 de diciembre de 1997, cuando el termómetro disminuyó hasta los -25 grados Una tormenta de hielo en EEUU deja sin electricidad a más ...