Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a ...

Humans aren’t the only animals with numerical awareness, although we are alone in our ability to perform symbolic ...

Homo erectus fossils discovered on the island of Java come from a population that died between 117,000 and 108,000 years ago, researchers found. It's the last known appearance of Homo erectus in ...

The Sunda Shelf is home to a rich Pleistocene hominin fossil record, including specimens of Homo floresiensis, Homo ...

The DAN5 Homo erectus cranium found at the site in Gona, Ethiopia. Michael J. Rogers, Southern Connecticut State University "At each site, we found H. erectus cranial fossils in direct association ...

Homo erectus was in the news over 2018 thanks to new discoveries in the Philippines and China, which have transformed our understanding of this not too distant family member.. So who was Homo ...

Several Homo erectus skulls were recently identified as the youngest known fossils of the species, some 108,000 to 117,000 years old. These fossil replicas are housed at the University of Iowa ...

Homo erectus was an ancient human ancestor that lived between 2 million and 100,000 years ago. It had a larger body and bigger brain than earlier human ancestors.

Homo erectus is the longest lived hominin species, having first appeared in Africa around two million years ago. The species migrated into Asia before ending up on the Indonesian island of Java.

Homo erectus was also the most successful of all human species, at least so far. They survived for a staggering period of time, nearly two million years, before fading out about 110,000 years ago ...

Homo erectus, a predecessor of modern humans, used shells as food, tools and even engraved one with zigzag lines in ancient Java, Indonesia.

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