Homo erectus, emerging two million years ago, marked a key step in human evolution. This exploration examines their lifestyle, behavior, and the wild Pleistocene world they navigated.

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ancestral lineages.

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 ...

The enlightened truth of the role of fire in human evolution ... suggests that the controlled use of fire began with Homo erectus, who emerged nearly two million years ago. For those early ...

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 ...

Beyond human ancestry, the researchers say their method could help to transform how scientists study the evolution of other ... that species such as Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis lived ...

Scientists have long debated how modern humans evolved. For decades, most researchers agreed that Homo sapiens came from one ...

Homo erectus first appeared in Africa roughly 1.9 million years ago, with body proportions similar to modern people. Homo antecessor also had modern body proportions as well as modern-looking ...