Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Homo erectus is arguably the first hominin that really started to resemble us, with shorter arms and longer legs than species that came before. It ...

A 1.5-million-year-old fossil from Gona, Ethiopia reveals new details about the first hominin species to disperse from Africa. Summary: Virtual reassembly of teeth and fossil bone fragments reveals a ...

Homo erectus may be the most important extinct human species in our evolutionary history. Emerging around 2 million years ago and surviving until roughly 117,000 to 108,000 years ago, it spread out of ...

A prehistoric human known as Homo erectus was the first of our forerunners to leave Africa, crossing continents and ultimately roaming the planet for almost 2 million years. But with scarce genetic ...

Map showing potential migration routes of the human ancestor, Homo erectus, in Africa, Europe and Asia during the early Pleistocene. Key fossils of Homo erectus and the earlier Homo habilis species ...

A recent discovery stemming from a massive construction project reveals evidence of a previously unknown group of Homo erectus that lived off the coast of Java, Indonesia, 140,000 years ago. Skull ...