A reconstruction of Homo erectus - the first known human to walk fully upright An ancient relative of modern humans survived into comparatively recent times in South East Asia, a new study has ...

Homo Erectus This species, until recently known by a multiplicity of other names, was probably the immediate predecessor of modern man. It now seems possible that the transition took place some ...

habilis had a brain that was larger than the largest Autralopithecus brain, but smaller than the Homo erectus brain. The first example of Homo erectus, known as "Java Man," was discovered in ...

A reconstruction of the 1.2 million-year-old pelvis discovered in 2001 in the Gona Study Area at Afar, Ethiopia, that has led researchers to speculate early man was better equipped than first ...

But it's not until Homo erectus came on the scene about 1.9 million years ago that we see the long-legged form, similar to our own, that makes us so well suited to running and walking over long ...

The remains recovered from the cave complex include the earliest example of Homo erectus - a direct human ancestor Two million years ago, three different human-like species were living side-by ...

Homo erectus, remains of which have been found ... With such a large age range, it is difficult to pin down exactly where in the evolutionary tree the fossil may fit and opens up the possibility ...

Their ages range from around 95,000 years old ... Q: There is debate today (at least in some circles) regarding a possible Homo erectus genetic contribution to indigenous populations in Australia ...

Homo habilis ("handy man", "skillful person") is a species of the genus Homo, which lived from approximately 2.5 million to 1.8 million years ago at the beginning of the Pleistocene.

In both cases, it is likely that there were many more human individuals alive at the TMRCA—whether they were of the same species as Homo sapiens is hard to determine, but descendants of other ...

Over 20 years ago, it was rare to find tracks left by our ancient human ancestors that were more than 50,000 years old. Back ...

Dated to between 1.5 and 1.6 mya, and discovered on the western side of Lake Turkana Kenya in the mid 1980s by Kamoya Kimeu, leader of the paleontological team dubbed the ‘Hominid Gang’.