First appearing in the modern era are characteristics of modern humans including growing brain size and reliance on material culture: Homo Habilis.
An extinct species of early Pleistocene humans known as Homo Habilis, or "handy man," lived in East and South Africa between 2.31 million and 1.65 million years ago (mya). When H. habilis was first described as a species in 1964, there was a lot of debate about it. Many scientists suggested that it be grouped with Australopithecus africanus, the only other early hominin that was known at the time, but as time went on and more pertinent discoveries were made, H. habilis gained more recognition. By the 1980s, it was believed that Homo habilis was a direct progenitor of modern humans, evolving into Homo erectus along the way. There is currently discussion about this point of view. There have been arguments for splitting H. habilis into "H. rudolfensis" and "H. gautengensis," but only the former has received widespread support. This is because a number of specimens with uncertain species identification were given the name "H. habilis."
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