A 1.5-million-year-old lakebed from Kenya shows two ancient human relatives cohabitating an environment, shaking up our ...

Astronomers have discovered a group of dwarf galaxies with distinct features that challenge predictions made by the ...

A NEW species of human with bigger brains and heads has been unearthed, claim Chinese archaeologists. Researchers alleged ...

Prof Ciochon thinks this could mark the exact point of extinction of Homo erectus on the island. "Homo sapiens is the only hominin species that lives in a tropical forest," he explained.

About 1.5 million years ago, individuals of two different species in the human evolutionary lineage trudged on a muddy ...

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.

By the 1980s, H. habilis was proposed to have been a human ancestor, directly evolving into Homo erectus which directly led to modern humans. This viewpoint is now debated. Several specimens with ...

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 ...

Deep in the limestone caves of southern China lies a discovery that challenged everything we thought we knew about human ...

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 ...

The fellowship that we call humanity contains some unlikely characters, not least of all a diminutive extinct species known ...

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 ...