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 ...

Homo habilis, which actually means "handy ... The brain was enclosed in a skull that was more rounded than H. erectus'. Fossil remains of archaic Homo sapiens have been found in Africa and Europe.

Anthropologists have said human beings evolved in a straight line from Homo habilis to Homo erectus to us, Homo sapiens, over two million years. But fossil bones found in 2000 near Lake Turkana in ...

Researchers have traditionally used differences among fossilized remains of ancient humans to define separate species among the earliest members of our Homo genus - Homo erectus, Homo habilis, and ...

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 ...

Homo habilis was only able to break out large flakes from a cobble; its voluntary control of its mental template was quite crude. Homo erectus, on the other hand, was able to break off much ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Erectus the Game Erectus is a free ... the player takes part in a conflict between the Homo sapiens and Homo erectus. The objective of Erectus the ...

Broadly speaking, there are two competing hypotheses on the origin of modern humans: the Out-of-Africa hypothesis and the multiregional hypothesis. Both agree that Homo erectus originated in ...

The tiny piece of bone is from an early hobbit (Homo floresiensis ... Homo erectus ancestor, rather than the shorter African Australopithecus — also known as Lucy — or Homo habilis.

The leading hypotheses suggested that the Hobbit descended from either Homo erectus or more primitive species such as Homo habilis or Australopithecus ... long after Homo sapiens arrived in ...