Homo erectus, emerging two million years ago, marked a key step in human evolution. This exploration examines their lifestyle ...

But it's not until Homo erectus came on the scene about 1.9 million years ... You can learn more about our origins and evolution in the Museum's Human Evolution gallery and this feature about the ...

While species like Homo sapiens, Homo erectus, and Homo neanderthalensis ... this discovery has significant implications for the study of human evolution: “This study clarifies a hominin fossil ...

Also known as Homo heidelbergensis, this species has a brain that was larger than H. erectus' and smaller than that of a modern human. The brain was enclosed in a skull that was more rounded than H.

The researchers from the University of New England in Australia and the East Tennessee State University in the United States found that biting with high force risked damaging jaw joints, indicating ...

What does that overlap mean for the linear view of human evolution? It means Homo erectus and Homo habilis are really sister species, with a common ancestor older than 2 million years. We are ...

Ancient artifacts such as stone tools and fossils, including ancient human skulls and teeth ... when members of ancestral species such as Homo erectus dispersed from Africa.

These immature infants, much more helpless than, say, a newborn chimp, would have needed an extended period of care, more like a modern human baby ... the appearance Homo erectus/ergaster in ...

A Homo erectus skullcap found northwest of Johannesburg in South Africa has been identified as the oldest to date, in research published in Science. The hominin is a direct ancestor of modern ...

One of our direct human ancestors is older than we thought. The Cradle of Humankind northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa has yielded its first Homo erectus fossil, and the oldest found anywhere.

Our Human Evolution gallery explores the origins of Homo sapiens, tracing our lineage since it split from that of our closest living relatives, the chimpanzee and the bonobo. Gallery developer Jenny ...

Homo heidelbergensis ... the director of the museum’s Human Origins Program, and sculptor John Gurche condensed a two-million-year period of human evolution into a series of five bronzes.