Details of the result are described in the journal Nature. In the 1930s, 12 Homo erectus skull caps and two lower leg bones were found in a bone bed 20m above the Solo River at Ngandong in central ...

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 ...

The purpose of the characteristics was to give them the ... mere meters away from a spot where scientists uncovered a Homo ...

The "Yunxian Man" fossil human skulls are the most complete ones found in Eurasia for the same era, providing key evidence for the study of the evolution of Homo erectus in East Asia, according to ...

The exhibition features more than 20 collections and ... erectus Sangiran 17 (S-17), considered the most complete Homo erectus skull in Indonesia, with a brain volume of about 900 cubic ...

The most primitive hominid yet found, this species has more chimpanzee-like features ... enclosed in a skull that was more rounded than H. erectus'. Fossil remains of archaic Homo sapiens have ...

The skull which is more primitive than those of modern humans, but more advanced than Homo erectus, was considered to be around 500,000 years old based on its anatomy. It is considered by many ...

The world's first scientific facial reconstruction case based on the "Yunxian Man" skull fossils dating back approximately 1 million years was unveiled by Hubei Provincial Museum on Thursday, ...

(Photo credit Homo erectus skull, Axel Timmermann). Pink shading in map highlights areas, where early human species suffered a major reduction in habitat suitability due to cooling, drying and ...