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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New Homo erectus skull fossils found undersea reveal migration across ancient Sundaland, suggesting cultural exchange and advanced hunting in prehistoric Southeast Asia ...

A human fossil discovery ... more light on the body size of Homo floresiensis. The team also found two additional hominin teeth similar in shape to early Homo erectus, but smaller in size, leading ...

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 ...