Homo erectus is associated with a number of firsts in its 2 million years of existence, including being the first hominin to travel out of Africa.

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An international team of researchers in South Africa has discovered that our ancestor Homo erectus is older than we thought. An excavation at Drimolen near Johannesburg uncovered the remains of a ...

Fossils found in Israel’s Nesher Ramla quarry, dated to 140,000–120,000 years ago, belonged to a new group of hominins. With traits of Neanderthals, Homo erectus, and Homo sapiens, this lineage may ...

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The human ancestor Homo erectus emerged about two million years ago, and was thought to have all but disappeared by about 300,000 years ago. But now, an international team of scientists has uncovered ...

The Gona site in Afar, Ethiopia is a hotbed of anthropological discovery. It is also, quite literally, hot. But the inhospitable climate, paleoanthropologist Sileshi Semaw tells Inverse, is likely why ...

Scientists believe they have resolved a controversy over how long Homo erectus inhabited the Indonesian island of Java before dying out. New evidence -- which was published Wednesday in the journal ...

If you bumped into a Homo erectus in the street you might not recognise them as being very different from you. You’d see a certain “human-ness” in the stance, and his or her size and shape might be ...

April 3 (UPI) --Paleontologists have unearthed the oldest fossil belonging to the hominin species Homo erectus. The 2 million-year-old fossil skull, excavated over a five-year period in South Africa, ...

"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 ...