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 ...

Although SK 15's external structure resembles H. ergaster, it looks "a bit weird for Homo," Zanolli said. For instance, SK 15 is extremely thick compared with any other Homo jaw.

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, ...

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 ...

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 million-year-old Homo erectus skull found in Ethiopia indicates that this human ancestor was a single species scattered widely throughout Asia, Europe and Africa, not two separate species ...

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.

Paranthropus robustus was a species of prehistoric human that lived in South Africa about 2 million years ago, alongside Homo ergaster, a direct ancestor of modern people. Fossils of Paranthropus ...

Researchers have believed since the 1960s that the fossil jaw, unearthed at the Swartkrans archaeological site, belonged to an early human species called Homo ergaster.

The group of fossils, belonging to a single, young adult, prove that Paranthropus robustus were habitual upright walkers, much like modern humans and their Homo ergaster neighbors. The new discovery ...