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 ...

Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a ...

The Sunda Shelf is home to a rich Pleistocene hominin fossil record, including specimens of Homo floresiensis, Homo ...

"Homo erectus could disperse from the Asian mainland to Java." The vast majority of Sundaland is now a shallow sea, and until now, fossils had never been found in this area.

New evidence reveals Homo erectus mastered survival in Tanzania’s ancient deserts, proving they were adaptable generalists long before modern humans emerged. Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Image ...

Archaeologists working in Southeast Asia recovered 140,000-year-old Homo erectus bones from an extinct human species on the ocean floor, according to new studies.

Homo erectus is believed to have evolved about 2 million years ago in Africa. They were the first to reach the stature of modern humans, and they had long slender legs to run on.

Homo erectus is a key ancestor of modern humans. Emerging at least two million years ago, they were the first to develop human-like proportions and the first to migrate out of Africa, eventually ...

The species’ name can be shortened to Homo aff. erectus.In taxonomy, “aff.” comes from the Latin affinis, meaning “related to,” and it’s often used to indicate a species closely ...

Far before modern humans ever walked the Earth, our Homo erectus ancestors made arduous journeys to the present-day islands of Southeast Asia. Fossil remnants of H. erectus have been left all across ...