Also known as Homo heidelbergensis, this species has a brain that was larger than H. erectus' and smaller than that of a modern human. The brain was enclosed in a skull that was more rounded than H.

A Homo erectus skullcap found northwest of Johannesburg in South Africa has been identified as the oldest to date, in research published in Science. The hominin is a direct ancestor of modern ...

Exactly whose idea it was to set off on this world tour is difficult to say, yet Homo erectus is generally ... has not ...

What does that overlap mean for the linear view of human evolution? It means Homo erectus and Homo habilis are really sister species, with a common ancestor older than 2 million years. We are ...

But it's not until Homo erectus came on the scene about 1.9 million years ... You can learn more about our origins and evolution in the Museum's Human Evolution gallery and this feature about the ...

While species like Homo sapiens, Homo erectus, and Homo neanderthalensis ... this discovery has significant implications for the study of human evolution: “This study clarifies a hominin fossil ...

One of our direct human ancestors is older than we thought. The Cradle of Humankind northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa has yielded its first Homo erectus fossil, and the oldest found anywhere.

Scientists have long debated how modern humans evolved. For decades, most researchers agreed that Homo sapiens came from one ...

They show that by 1.5 million years ago, our ancestors (Homo erectus ... whose discoveries of early human remains reshaped our understanding of human evolution. The site offers an unparalleled ...

Ancient artifacts such as stone tools and fossils, including ancient human skulls and teeth ... when members of ancestral species such as Homo erectus dispersed from Africa.

Our Human Evolution gallery explores the origins of Homo sapiens, tracing our lineage since it split from that of our closest living relatives, the chimpanzee and the bonobo. Gallery developer Jenny ...

The astonishingly small adult limb bone discovered in Indonesia rekindles debates about modern humans' ancient relative, Homo floresiensis. The new find offers fresh insights into this diminutive ...