A reconstruction of the crushed skull labelled Yunxian 2, which has features that are closer to species thought to have existed later in human evolution - BBC A digital reconstruction of a ...

The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain more than one million years ago. Reading time: Reading time 4 minutes Most of ...

"There are a lot of firsts associated with Homo erectus," Karen Baab, a biological anthropologist at Midwestern University in Glendale, Arizona, told Live Science. "We have the first evidence of ...

Humans aren’t the only animals with numerical awareness, although we are alone in our ability to perform symbolic manipulations of numbers. Taking a deep-dive into the evolutionary roots of our ...

'Pink' may have been a member of the Homo erectus family. By Andrew Paul Published Mar 12, 2025 12:00 PM EDT Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...

It’s been almost 2 million years since the first archaic humans ventured out of their African homeland. Exactly whose idea it ...

The bones were part of a cache of more than 6,000 recovered fossils. Archaeologists have recovered 140,000-year-old Homo erectus bones from an extinct human species on the ocean floor in Southeast ...

Dredging operations off the coast of Java, Indonesia, unearthed a treasure trove of thousands of animal fossils, including those of a previously unknown Homo erectus population. A team of scientists ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...