The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

What did researchers find? A 1.6-to-1.5-million-year-old skull from Ethiopia combines features from two different stages of ...

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale ...

Digital reconstruction of Ethiopian fossil shows a mix of primitive, classic features, says research team - Anadolu Ajansı ...

According to Dr Baab, this may reflect the Gona population preserving traits from the earliest Homo erectus groups that left ...

The human ancestor Homo erectus emerged about two million years ago, and was thought to have all but disappeared by about 300,000 years ago. But now, an international team of scientists has uncovered ...

The Gona site in Afar, Ethiopia is a hotbed of anthropological discovery. It is also, quite literally, hot. But the inhospitable climate, paleoanthropologist Sileshi Semaw tells Inverse, is likely why ...

Scientists believe they have resolved a controversy over how long Homo erectus inhabited the Indonesian island of Java before dying out. New evidence -- which was published Wednesday in the journal ...

An international team of researchers in South Africa has discovered that our ancestor Homo erectus is older than we thought. An excavation at Drimolen near Johannesburg uncovered the remains of a ...

If you bumped into a Homo erectus in the street you might not recognise them as being very different from you. You’d see a certain “human-ness” in the stance, and his or her size and shape might be ...