A reconstruction of Homo erectus - the first known human to walk fully upright An ancient relative of modern humans survived into comparatively recent times in South East Asia, a new study has ...

The Red Deer Cave People might have been some of the most unusual and mysterious humans to walk the Earth in the past 20,000 ...

The team also thinks the so-called Hobbits may have have descended from another extinct human species known as Homo erectus – often thought of as a direct ancestor of modern humans. Professor Adam ...

The remains recovered from the cave complex include the earliest example of Homo erectus - a direct human ancestor Two million years ago, three different human-like species were living side-by ...

LSU anthropology professor attended a conference in Croatia, where she was invited to present her research on human ancestors ...

A study published in the journal Science Advances by researchers at the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan ...

Mountain diversity influenced early human evolution, offering abundant resources that shaped hominin adaptation and ...

A reconstruction of the 1.2 million-year-old pelvis discovered in 2001 in the Gona Study Area at Afar, Ethiopia, that has led researchers to speculate early man was better equipped than first ...

With the appearance Homo erectus/ergaster in the fossil record we also see the first use of fire, the first appearance of more systematic toolmaking, and the first migration of hominids outside ...

One of the more immediate ancestors of modern humans, Homo erectus, lived between 500 thousand and 1.5 million years ago and it is with this species that we see the first signs of organised ...

Dated to between 1.5 and 1.6 mya, and discovered on the western side of Lake Turkana Kenya in the mid 1980s by Kamoya Kimeu, leader of the paleontological team dubbed the ‘Hominid Gang’.

Both agree that Homo erectus originated in Africa and expanded to Eurasia about one million years ago, but they differ in explaining the origin of modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens). The first ...