A handful of ancient teeth from China are giving scientists an unusual look at one of the hardest chapters in human evolution ...

Scientists retrieved proteins from six teeth unearthed in China that reveal a potential link between Homo erectus and later ...

Der Homo erectus gilt als die erste Menschenart, die Afrika verließ und Eurasien besiedelte. Wann dies geschah, ist jedoch strittig, Jetzt liefert eine Neudatierung von drei in China entdeckten ...

A new study of six Homo erectus individuals from China reveals one amino acid variant that distinguished this archaic human ...

Someone made very sophisticated wooden tools in China 300,000 years ago, and it might have been Denisovans or even Homo erectus. The digging sticks, curved root-slicers, and a handful of somewhat ...

Several Homo erectus skulls were recently identified as the youngest known fossils of the species, some 108,000 to 117,000 years old. These fossil replicas are housed at the University of Iowa. Tim ...

Homo erectus was able to adapt to and survive in desert-like environments at least 1.2 million years ago, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & Environment. The findings suggest ...