Anthropologists have said human beings evolved in a straight line from Homo habilis to Homo erectus to us, Homo sapiens, over two million years. But fossil bones found in 2000 near Lake Turkana in ...

This discovery marks the first Hobbit bone beyond the cranium identified at Mata Menge. Based on the bone's size, researchers ...

Some propose they descended from Homo erectus, an early human ancestor known ... more primitive hominin such as Homo habilis or Australopithecus afarensis. “It’s clear from the small size ...

habilis had a brain that was larger than the largest Autralopithecus brain, but smaller than the Homo erectus brain. The first example of Homo erectus, known as "Java Man," was discovered in ...

Some researchers even suggest that Homo habilis and Homo rudolfensis could be subspecies of Homo erectus, although this theory remains controversial. These skulls continue to be an important piece ...

Researchers have traditionally used differences among fossilized remains of ancient humans to define separate species among the earliest members of our Homo genus - Homo erectus, Homo habilis, and ...

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 ...

While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left Africa about 1.5 million years ago to populate other parts of the world, there are two main theories about ...

While experts haven’t confirmed Pink’s exact hominin species just yet, they may belong to our famous evolutionary relative, Homo erectus. Hominins began migrating into Eurasia at least 1.8 ...

Pink: fragment (ATE7-1) left of the face of an individual assigned to Homo aff. erectus recovered in level TE7 of the Sima del Elefante (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain). Credit: María D. Guillén / ...