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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Fossils found in Georgia challenge existing theories of human origins, suggesting two early human species coexisted at the Dmanisi site.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...