A reconstruction of Homo erectus - the first known human to walk fully upright An ancient relative of modern humans survived into comparatively recent times in South East Asia, a new study has ...

While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left Africa about 1.5 million years ago to populate other parts of the world, there are two main theories about ...

Several hominin species made their home at Koobi Fora over the span of about 3 million years, including two types of australopithecines and four members of the Homo genus. But because the fossil ...