Homo erectus, emerging two million years ago, marked a key step in human evolution. This exploration examines their lifestyle, behavior, and the wild Pleistocene world they navigated.

Also known as Homo heidelbergensis, this species has a brain that was larger than H. erectus' and smaller than that of a modern human. The brain was enclosed in a skull that was more rounded than H.

What does that overlap mean for the linear view of human evolution? It means Homo erectus and Homo habilis are really sister species, with a common ancestor older than 2 million years. We are ...

Exactly whose idea it was to set off on this world tour is difficult to say, yet Homo erectus is generally ... has not ...

A Homo erectus skullcap found northwest of Johannesburg in South Africa has been identified as the oldest to date, in research published in Science. The hominin is a direct ancestor of modern ...

But it's not until Homo erectus came on the scene about 1.9 million years ... You can learn more about our origins and evolution in the Museum's Human Evolution gallery and this feature about the ...

These immature infants, much more helpless than, say, a newborn chimp, would have needed an extended period of care, more like a modern human baby ... the appearance Homo erectus/ergaster in ...

One of our direct human ancestors is older than we thought. The Cradle of Humankind northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa has yielded its first Homo erectus fossil, and the oldest found anywhere.

Aa Aa Aa Reconstructing the evolution of human development from a severely ... brain size at birth for australopiths, early Homo, and Homo erectus (180, 225, and 270 cc, respectively).

A Long Childhood Is the Prelude to the Evolution of a Large Brain Nov. 14, 2024 — Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating ...

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 ...