The site could be the first physical evidence of the lost landmass known as Sundaland, which submerged between 14,000 and ...

Homo erectus marked a major turning point in human evolution. They were the first early humans to resemble us more closely, ...

A stock image illustrating an early human. Researchers are furthering our understanding of the homo erectus. A stock image illustrating an early human. Researchers are furthering our understanding ...

Skeletons show Neanderthals were muscular and a bit shorter than us ... The likely "first human", she says, was Homo erectus. These short, stocky humans were a real stayer in human evolutionary ...

An illustration of the Homo erectus child with her mother in the Ethiopian highlands, two million years ago Diego Rodríguez Robredo Archaeologists are rewriting the story of an early human child ...

Rather, the facial fragments belong to Homo affinis erectus—and the finding, reported today in Nature, indicates that the human population in Europe turned over at the end of the Early Pleistocene.

Most likely, members of the team thought, their find was a dwarfed offshoot of Homo erectus — the first human species to leave Africa and migrate around the world, the remains of which have been ...

New evidence reveals Homo erectus mastered survival in Tanzania’s ancient deserts, proving they were adaptable generalists long before modern humans emerged. Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Image ...