Between 2 million and 3 million years ago, humans appeared in Africa — but identifying them in the fossil record is turning out to be surprisingly difficult. When you purchase through links on our ...

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This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. Homo habilis is a paradoxical species. On the one hand, ...

A partial skeleton dating back more than two million years is the most complete yet of Homo habilis, one of the earliest known species in our genus “A finding like this does give hope,” says William ...