A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.

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

Primitive in all the wrong ways, "National Lampoon's Homo Erectus" sets comedy back a good 2 million years, reminding auds of simpler times when a club to the head or a spear to the crotch was all it ...

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

From a recent Burnt Orange Productions press release: Austin, TX – Production recently began on Homo Erectus: A Caveman Comedy, a broad comedy set in prehistoric times written, directed by and ...

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 ...

National Lampoon has acquired worldwide rights to Adam Rifkin’s caveman comedy “Homo Erectus” and set a theatrical release for September. Pic’s produced in association with National Lampoon, Burnt ...

Ali Larter and Tom Arnold are amongst the cast of Homo Erectus: A Caveman Comedy, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The indie comedy, written and directed by star Adam Rifkin, tells the story of ...

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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 ...