The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain ...

The prehistoric facial bones were found buried in 50 feet of mud and silt, and are believed to be 1.1 to 1.4 million years ...

erectus. To find out who the Dmanisi humans really were, the authors of the as-yet un-peer-reviewed study conducted phylogenetic analyses of the remains, thus identifying their place within the ...

Over a million years ago, Homo erectus defied the extreme conditions of African deserts. A recent study reveals how this ...

Are the bones of several tiny individuals from the island of Flores the newest addition to our family tree, or are they the remains of diseased humans only masquerading as an extinct species?

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 ...

Are the bones of several tiny individuals from the island of Flores the newest addition to our family tree, or are they the remains of diseased humans only masquerading as an extinct species?

Pink: fragment (ATE7-1) left of the face of an individual assigned to Homo aff. erectus recovered in level TE7 of the Sima del Elefante (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain). Credit: María D. Guillén / ...

Our Human Evolution gallery explores the origins of Homo sapiens, tracing our lineage since it split from that of our closest ... The story of human evolution is not one of neat, linear progression ...

Uncover the history of life on Earth, from the smallest insects to the largest mammals. The ancient human species Homo luzonensis is one of the most recent branches to be added to the human ...

Logically, then, there must have been a moment when Homo sapiens became a distinct species ... We often imagine the human evolutionary tree as a grander version of a personal family tree ...