What you'll discover in this article ・A new 2 million-year-old adult Homo erectus fossil confirms that our ancestors were in South Africa 200,000 years before anywhere elsewhere. ・H. erectus and ...

Newly analyzed fossils from a South African cave suggest that Homo erectus, an early human species believed to be our direct ancestor, was living in southern Africa about 2 million years ago. The new ...

An adult skull fragment from the Drimolen cave confirms Homo erectus lived in South Africa 2 million years ago, about 200,000 ...

A 2-million-year-old skull fragment from South Africa may be an adult Homo erectus, predating previously discovered fossils ...

Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But the face staring back is complicating scientists' understanding of early ...

Two million years ago, in a cave northeast of Johannesburg, two kinds of human relatives lived side by side. One had massive jaws and huge molars.

A prehistoric human known as Homo erectus was the first of our forerunners to leave Africa, crossing continents and ultimately roaming the planet for almost 2 million years. But with scarce genetic ...

The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain more than one million years ago. Reading time 4 minutes Most of a human face ...

The discovery of Homo floresiensis, often termed a hobbit, confused a lot of people. Not only was it tiny in stature, but it shared some features with both Homo erectus and earlier Australopithecus ...

A team of researchers from Japan, Indonesia and Germany has found evidence that suggests Homo erectus arrived on the island of Java approximately 300,000 years later than thought. In their paper ...

Quintessential human traits such as large brains first appear in Homo erectus nearly 2 million years ago. This evolutionary transition towards human-like traits is often linked to a major dietary ...