A skull discovered at Ngaloba, Tanzania, also considered Homo sapiens, represents a 120,000-year-old individual with a mix of archaic traits and more modern aspects like smaller facial features ...

Figure 2: Anatomical comparisons of apes, early hominins, Australopithecus, Homo erectus, and humans. A male chimpanzee skull is shown as an example of modern apes.

Homo erectus (about 1.8m up to 0.5m years ago) After the rapidly expanding australopithecines, it is a relief to find the next 1.5 million years of human evolution looking rather simpler.

In southern Africa, meanwhile, Homo naledi was a primitive-seeming species that dates back just 300,000 years, and seems likely to have been a small-brained descendant of an early Homo erectus.

Genetic study reveals hidden chapter in human evolution Date: March 18, 2025 Source: University of Cambridge Summary: Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations ...

However, the anatomy of Homo erectus suggests it was incapable of speech. That talent most likely came with Homo heidelbergensis, which evolved from Homo erectus in Africa about 600,000 years ago.

When Homo sapiens appeared some 300,000 years ago, at least six other human species already shared the planet. Here, in the studio of paleoartist John Gurche, are model representations of those ...

Human evolution is the part of biological evolution concerning the emergence of humans as a distinct species. It is the subject of a broad scientific inquiry that seeks to understand and describe ...

The year 2023 proved to be another exciting 12 months for research in human evolution. Many of the top stories tell us more about the diet and tool use of our early ancestors and relatives and the ...

But there was never that much evidence that human evolution worked this way. Instead, it seems that Homo erectus, the Neanderthals and many others all walked so we could run.

The first fossil skulls of Homo erectus, 1.8 million years ago, had brains averaging a bit larger than 600 ml. From here the species embarked on a slow upward march, reaching more than 1,000 ml by ...