The human family tree is being shuffled around again. A new study suggests that Homo erectus existed 100,000 to 200,000 years earlier than previously thought, meaning they lived alongside species they ...

An unusual skullcap and thousands of clues have created a southern twist to the story of human ancestors, in research published in Science on 3 April. The rolling hills northwest of Johannesburg are ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It's a simple zigzag design scratched onto the surface of a freshwater mussel shell on the Indonesian island of Java about half a million years ago. But scientists are calling ...

The long-held hypothesis that eating meat corresponds with Homo erectus’ development of ‘human’ traits, such as large brains, nearly 2 million years ago is being unraveled. Homo erectus – meaning ...

Anthropologists define a "grade shift" when a species shares structural and/or behavioral characteristics different from their ancestors. They also agree that the appearance of Homo erectus about 2 ...