The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain ...

floresiensis were taller than their descendants, as the hobbits diverged from a larger species called Homo erectus. The question was why the hominins would get shorter after diverging from larger ...

Fossils are like time capsules, offering us a rare chance to glimpse the distant past. Over the years, a number of ancient ...

Scientists have unearthed in Spain fossilized facial bones roughly 1.1 million to 1.4 million years old that may represent a ...

The most primitive hominid yet found, this species has more chimpanzee-like features than any other ... but smaller than the Homo erectus brain. The first example of Homo erectus, known as ...

“Homo erectus, has a average cranial capacity ... The fossils in China don’t look anything like the European fossils. They don’t look anything like the African fossils.’ ...

While experts haven’t confirmed Pink’s exact hominin species just yet, they may belong to our famous evolutionary relative, Homo erectus ... additional relics like stone tools made from ...

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 ...