The research team then spent two years reconstructing the skull, leading to the conclusion that the specimen had facial features more akin to Homo erectus than to Homo antecessor. “Pink” is ...

The most primitive hominid yet found, this species has more chimpanzee-like features ... enclosed in a skull that was more rounded than H. erectus'. Fossil remains of archaic Homo sapiens have ...

Homo sapiens sapiens. The story of human evolution has emerged slowly over the century. The first significant discovery was that of the "Taung child" in 1925. Found in South Africa, the skull ...

The exhibition features more than 20 collections and ... erectus Sangiran 17 (S-17), considered the most complete Homo erectus skull in Indonesia, with a brain volume of about 900 cubic ...

While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left Africa about 1.5 million years ago to populate other parts of the world, there are two main theories about ...

Researchers have traditionally used differences among fossilized remains of ancient humans to define separate species among the earliest members of our Homo genus - Homo erectus, Homo habilis ...

However, the features of ATE7-1 are more archaic and bring us closer to more primitive forms of the Homo genus. Since the evidence does not yet allow for a definitive taxonomic classification, experts ...

Caption 3D reconstruction of the fossil skull of the sub-adult early Homo from the Dmanisi site in Georgia. The green, orange and red colors represent the preserved teeth (imaged respectively with ...

The remains have helped to fill in gaps in the fossil record and move science closer to understanding human evolution in Africa.

In a fascinating discovery that will force scientists to rewrite our species' evolutionary history, an international team has unearthed the earliest known skull of Homo erectus-- the first of our ...

Paleontologists have unearthed the oldest fossil belonging to the hominin species Homo erectus. The 2 million-year-old fossil skull, excavated over a five-year period in South Africa, suggests the ...