The iconic Homo erectus fossil was welcomed home with a repatriation ceremony and a new museum exhibit in Jakarta.

The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain more than one million years ago. Reading time 4 minutes Most of a human face ...

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 ...

For decades, anthropologists lumped these ancient populations into a single species, Homo heidelbergensis, long believed to ...

For years, scientists believed that Homo erectus was the first human species to venture out of Africa around 1.8 million ...

Researchers have succeeded in reconstructing the skull of an individual from the family of early humans, discovered in ...

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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 ...

Scientists now believe two human species coexisted at Dmanisi Hominid Archaeological Site in Georgia at a crucial point in ...

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 ...