Prof Chris Stringer, research leader on human evolution ... stages in this onward march overlapped with each other, in some cases for hundreds of thousands of years. But why did Homo erectus ...

This diagram called 'The March of Progress' simplifies evolution into a series of stages ... continues to evolve by gaining new traits, say Homo erectus evolves into Homo sapiens.

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an ... Based on the fossil record, we know that species like Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis lived in Africa (and beyond) during ...

Homo erectus was able to adapt to and survive in desert-like environments at least 1.2 million years ago, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & Environment. The findings suggest ...

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 ...

First unearthed in a startling discovery nearly 21 years ago, Homo floresiensis, the scientific name for the extinct species, challenged the idea that human evolution unfolded in a neat line from ...