For most of the 20th century, the model of human origins was a tree: with the trunk dividing into branches, and then twigs.

Humanity’s ancestry has grown far clearer thanks to our ability to obtain ancient DNA. We now know that, as humans left Africa, they interbred with the groups they met there, Neanderthals and ...

A new Nature study reports that proteins preserved in 400,000-year-old Homo erectus teeth carry a signal also seen in Denisovans, raising the possibility that these two ancient human relatives once ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an unexpectedly primitive appearance. While its braincase fits with classic ...

Dental proteins extracted from six Homo erectus individuals who lived in what’s now China 400,000 years ago provide the first ...

Homo erectus may be the most important extinct human species in our evolutionary history. Emerging around 2 million years ago ...

Homo erectus was able to adapt to and survive in desert-like environments at least 1.2 million years ago, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & Environment. The findings suggest ...

Bones from an extinct human ancestor have been recovered from the seafloor, revealing a previously unknown Homo erectus population in Southeast Asia that may have interacted with more modern humans, ...

Three Homo erectus skulls previously unearthed in China are almost 1.8 million years old, around 600,000 years older than originally thought, a new study finds. This revelation has made the Yunxian ...

Someone made very sophisticated wooden tools in China 300,000 years ago, and it might have been Denisovans or even Homo erectus. The digging sticks, curved root-slicers, and a handful of somewhat ...