With the appearance Homo erectus/ergaster in the fossil record we also see the first use of fire, the first appearance of more systematic toolmaking, and the first migration of hominids outside ...

This finding allows us to assert that during the early Pleistocene ... the Dmanisi hominids – dated to 1.8 million years ago. Officially known as Homo georgicus, these remains are widely considered to ...

leading paleoanthropologists to infer that these fossils represent early members of the hominin lineage. The first human-like traits to appear in the hominin fossil record are bipedal walking and ...

In the 8 million years or so since the earliest ancestors of humans diverged from the apes, at least a dozen humanlike species, called hominids, have lived on Earth. And this list is getting longer.

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for ...

By employing the scaling relationship between neonatal and adult brain size demonstrated by Martin (1983, 1990), they predicted brain size at birth for australopiths, early Homo, and Homo erectus ...

Researchers believe that members of the human family - hominids - and African apes ... who looked a good deal like a modern human. Homo erectus was taller than Homo habilis, more robust and ...

Exactly whose idea it was to set off on this world tour is difficult to say, yet Homo erectus is generally ... georgicus is ...

A reconstruction of the 1.2 million-year-old pelvis discovered in 2001 in the Gona Study Area at Afar, Ethiopia, that has led researchers to speculate early man was better equipped than first ...

The excavation of bone tools at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania expands the range of ancient hominids’ cultural innovations.

Pink: fragment (ATE7-1) left of the face of an individual assigned to Homo aff. erectus recovered in level TE7 of the Sima ... hosted various human species simultaneously during the Early Pleistocene.