Tracks from two humanlike species crossing paths in ancient Africa shed light on the tale of our specialized locomotion.

Sand dredging off the coast of Java has recovered more than 6,000 bones, including two fragments of skulls of the early humans Homo erectus. H. erectus and the other animals found there lived on ...

Homo erectus may have copied this practice from these populations. This suggests there may have been contact between these hominin groups, or even genetic exchange." A broader view of ...

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.

Homo erectus has been credited with the longest reign of any of the species in the Homo genus, it is actually quite insane how long they were around. They emerged around 2 million years ago and ...

Over a million years ago, Homo erectus defied the extreme conditions of African deserts. A recent study reveals how this ancestor of humanity thrived in arid environments, long before Homo sapiens.

New evidence reveals Homo erectus mastered survival in Tanzania ... that only appeared with modern humans. However, this view was based on limited and fragmentary data from a few archaeological ...

PARIS, France - Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a new study that casts doubt on the idea that Homo sapiens were ...

PARIS: Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a new study that casts doubt on the idea that Homo sapiens were the ...

A figure of Homo erectus, whose ruggedness and capabilities may have been going underestimated - Copyright AFP SAUL LOEB A figure of Homo erectus, whose ruggedness ...