Abstract
Abstract It is widely assumed that our own genus, Homo, arose somewhere among the welter of australopith species. But nobody knows for sure which australopith was closest to our own ancestry. As always, the hunt is on for more fossils; but in the meantime there are several candidates for classification as the earliest known Homo. The first really ancient species of our genus to have been named is Homo habilis, described by Louis Leakey and two colleagues in 1964. The fossils—a rather fragmentary bunch consisting of a broken lower jaw, some pieces of braincase, and some hand bones—were found in Olduvai Gorge, a hot, dusty canyon in the Serengeti Plains of what is today Tanzania.
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