Humans are fundamentally technological creatures. We depend on the manufacture and use of tools for our survival to a degree qualitatively greater than any other species. Therefore, an understanding ...

Some of the morphological characteristics of the human hand are different from that of other primates enabling us to grab objects with precision and use them exerting a force. Yet, how did our early ...

Read more: Click here to read the original, longer version of this story. MOVE over Homo habilis, you’re being dethroned. It seems our “handy” ancestor wasn’t the first to use stone tools. In ...

Archaeologists have long linked ancient tool use to the beginning of human history. Homo habilis, the theory goes, was the "handy man" who used tools and served as the intermediary species between the ...

The ancestors of humans may have evolved humanlike hands that were precise and powerful enough to use stone tools more than a half million years before such tools were even developed, researchers say.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Human ancestors may have been capable of using tools much earlier than previously thought. Scientists said on Thursday an analysis of fossil hand bones of the species ...