Scientists Say It Is ‘The Oldest Face in Western Europe’ Faces are a huge part of human identity. Researchers have found ...

Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a new study that casts doubt on the idea that Homo sapiens were the first ...

Despite the primitive appearance of its skull, the erectus skeleton is very similar to that of modern humans, although more robust (thicker and heavier). Homo erectus was probably the first ...

resembling Homo erectus, particularly in its flat and underdeveloped nasal structure,” explained María Martinón-Torres, director of Spain’s National Research Center on Human Evolution ...

This discovery opens the door for further investigation into early human diversity, especially as scientists try to match these genetic ancestors with known fossil groups like Homo erectus and ...

Fragments of human facial bones that surfaced in northern ... in the area 800,000 to 900,000 years ago—and closer to Homo erectus. Similarities between Pink and Homo erectus prompted scientists ...

an archaeologist at the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution in Tarragona, Spain. Homo erectus arose around 2 million years ago and moved from Africa to regions of Asia and ...

This means that people in China descended from the Homo erectus population there ... say that most genetic variation in human populations is found in Africa, suggesting that humans have evolved ...

Determined to single-handedly, advance the human race, Ishbo continually irritates his fellow Neanderthals with ridiculous inventions like the toothbrush, the spoon, and pants. The rest of his ...

The Out of Africa model posits that all living humans (Homo sapiens sapiens ... beginning when members of ancestral species such as Homo erectus dispersed from Africa. In this model, isolation ...

Facial bones dated to between 1.4 and 1.1 million years old have been found in a cave in the Atapuerca mountains in Spain. They are the oldest bones of their kind in Western Europe, and ...