Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

Homo erectus, emerging two million years ago, marked a key step in human evolution. This exploration examines their lifestyle ...

Fragments of a Homo erectus skull were among deposits of vertebrate fossils found when the Indonesian seafloor was being ...

New Israeli research suggests large game was smoked as early as 1.8 million years ago, a survival strategy that may have ...

Most of a human face found in northern Spain belongs to a primitive archaic human, marking the oldest known evidence of hominins in western Europe, anthropologists announced Wednesday. The facial ...

underscores the complexity of human evolution, particularly in eastern Asia. For decades, fossils from this region that didn't fit neatly into categories like Homo erectus or Homo sapiens were ...

Exactly whose idea it was to set off on this world tour is difficult to say, yet Homo erectus is generally ... has not hitherto been reported in human evolution and would necessitate a ...

Thursday’s findings also raises a question: How did these two distinct species of prehistoric human relatives ... had some influence on the evolution of Homo erectus.” Fred Spoor, a professor ...

The fossils provide the first physical confirmation that Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei lived alongside ... As Professor Fred Spoor, one of our Research Leaders in human evolution, explains, ...

After the rapidly expanding australopithecines, it is a relief to find the next 1.5 million years of human evolution looking rather simpler. One hominin – Homo erectus – becomes supreme ...

After the rapidly expanding australopithecines, it is a relief to find the next 1.5 million years of human evolution looking rather simpler. One hominin—Homo erectus—becomes supreme ...