A new study verifies the age and origin of one of the oldest specimens of Homo erectus -- a very successful early human who roamed the world for nearly 2 million years. In doing so, the researchers ...
Far before modern humans ever walked the Earth, our Homo erectus ancestors made arduous journeys to the present-day islands of Southeast Asia. Fossil remnants of H. erectus have been left all across ...
A new fossil find in the Republic of Georgia is expanding our understanding of the earliest humans to leave Africa.
A fossil cranium, which is around 1 million years old and was initially believed to belong to Homo erectus, is now thought to be part of the Asian longi clade, closely linked to the Denisovans, which ...
The palm oil industry in Indonesia has led to widespread deforestation, making it hard to find remaining signs of archaic life. Donal Husni / NurPhoto / Getty Images From the air, endless rows of palm ...
Well if there's one thing genomic analysis has taught us, it's that no hominid is ever really gone. Seriously though. We've got, what, two Denisovan sites and there is already evidence for possible ...
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 ...