Homo ergaster ("working man") is an extinct hominid species (or subspecies, according to some authorities) which lived throughout eastern and southern Africa between 1.9 to 1.4 million years ago ...

Two-million-year-old teeth unlock new secrets of ancient human relatives - Scientists made a surprising discovery when studying fossils of a distant human relative – Paranthropus robustus ...

Homo ergaster evolved during an accelerated period of global cooling and drying that cleared more and more tropical rainforest from Africa and created a desert in the northern half of the ...

It’s been almost 2 million years since the first archaic humans ventured out of their African homeland. Exactly whose idea it was to set off on this world tour is difficult to say, yet Homo erectus is ...

White argues that Homo ergaster is actually an early Homo erectus. Homo erectus was actually a single, widespread species, White said. It did not start to fragment into different species, ...

Homo erectus and Homo ergaster were arguably the two most successful species in the history of our genus, living for nearly two million years and only dying out less than 100,000 years ago.

A number of further migrations out of Africa probably occurred after the initial Homo ergaster migration, one of which, Homo heidelbergensis, is considered by many paleoanthropologists to be the ...

Researchers have estimated that between our ancient cousins Homo ergaster and Home erectus, the entire human race was made up of just 26,000 people. Worse still, ...

Known as Homo ergaster, they made tools and were proficient hunters. Their bones suggest they would have been powerful runners, capable of speeds that would rival a modern Olympic athlete.

About a boy . One of the best sources of information about Homo ergaster is a skeleton discovered in 1984 by Alan Walker and Kamoya Kimeu at Nariokotome in West Turkana, Kenya. The remains were ...