Homo Habilis

Homo habilis (meaning "handy man" or "able man") is a species of the tribe Hominini,
during the Gelasian and early Calabrian stages of the Pleistocene period, which lived
between roughly 2.8 and 1.5 million years ago. [1]
A team led by scientists Louis and Mary Leakey uncovered the fossilized remains during
the time frame of 1960-1963 at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania; these fossils were
speculated to be a new species, and called Homo habilis ('handy man'), because they
suspected that it was this slightly larger-brained early human that made the thousands
of stone tools also found at Olduvai Gorge.[2][3][4]
In its appearance and morphology, H. habilis is the least similar to modern humans of
all species in the genus Homo (except the equally controversial H. rudolfensis), and its
classification as Homo has been the subject of controversial debate since its first
proposal in the 1960s.[5]

Homo Erectus

Homo erectus (meaning "upright man", from the Latin rigere, "to put up, set upright")
is an extinct species of hominid that lived throughout most of the Pleistocene geological
epoch. Its earliest fossil evidence dates to 1.9 million years ago and the most recent to
70,000 years ago. It is generally thought that H. erectus originated in Africa and spread
from there, migrating throughout Eurasia as far asGeorgia, India, Sri
Lanka, China and Indonesia.[1][2]
Debate also continues about the classification, ancestry, and progeny of Homo erectus,
especially vis--vis Homo ergaster, with two major positions: 1) H. erectus is the same
species as H. ergaster, and thereby H. erectus is a direct ancestor of the later hominins
includingHomo heidelbergensis, Homo neanderthalensis, and Homo sapiens; or, 2) it is
in fact an Asian species distinct from African H. ergaster.[1][3][4]
There is also another viewan alternative to 1):
some palaeoanthropologists consider H. ergaster to be a variety, that is, the "African"
variety, of H. erectus, and they offer the labels "Homo erectus sensu stricto" (strict
sense) for the Asian species and "Homo erectus sensu lato" (broad sense) for the
greater species comprising both Asian and African populations. [5][6]
A new debate appeared in 2013, with the documentation of the Dmanisi skulls.
[7]
Considering the large morphological variation among all Dmanisi skulls, researchers

now suggest that several early human ancestors variously classified, for example,
as Homo ergaster, or Homo rudolfensis, and perhaps even Homo habilis, should
instead be designated as Homo erectus.[8][9]

Homo Sapiens

Homo sapiens (Latin: "wise man") is the binomial nomenclature (also known as
the scientific name) for the only extant human species.Homo is the human genus, which
also includes Neanderthals and many other extinct species of hominid; H. sapiens is the
only surviving species of the genus Homo. Modern humans are the subspecies Homo
sapiens sapiens, which differentiates them from what has been argued to be their direct
ancestor, Homo sapiens idaltu. The ingenuity and adaptability of Homo sapiens has led
to its becoming the most influential species on the planet; it is currently deemed of least
concern on the Red List of endangered species by the International Union for the
Conservation of Nature.[1]