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 ...

Over a million years ago, Homo erectus defied the extreme conditions of African deserts. A recent study reveals how this ancestor of humanity thrived in arid environments, long before ...

Fossils of Australopithecus and Homo habilis have been found only in Africa, but examples of Homo erectus have been found in the Far East and China while the hand axe has been found in Asia and ...

Every person on Earth today can trace their ancestry to Africa, where modern humans (Homo sapiens) emerged at least 300,000 years ago. But our ancestor Homo erectus lived in Africa, Europe and ...

Over a million years ago, Homo erectus defied the extreme conditions of African deserts. A recent study reveals how this ancestor of humanity thrived in arid environments, long before Homo sapiens.

The Denisovans provided the genetic difference for Asian and Australid populations, two of the four “root races” from which ...

The origins of humans are in Africa. Homo erectus was spreading from there into Europe and Asia more than 1.5 million years ago. Homo sapiens – also referred to as “modern humans” – came from these ...

Homo erectus, the first of our relatives to have human-like proportions and the first known early human to migrate out of Africa, was the focus of the new study led by the international research team.

Romania is making strides in the archaeological world after new evidence confirmed the presence of ancient hominins in the country dating back two million years. The discovery was made at the Valea ...

"This adaptability expands Homo erectus's potential range into the Saharo-Sindian region across Africa and into similar environments in Asia." ...

beginning when members of ancestral species such as Homo erectus dispersed from Africa. In this model, isolation among hominin populations created regional variation in behavior and biology ...