Earliest 'modern' hand nearly two million years old

The find, reported in Nature Communications, will fuel ongoing debate as to which of our distant relatives—Homo habilis? Homo erectus?—might have been the first to make stone implements and weapons.

"Our discovery not only shows that a creature"—dubbed OH 86—"with a modern-looking hand existed 1.85 million years ago, it also shows that OH 86 was bigger sized than any other prior and contemporary hominin," said Dominguez-Rodrigo.