Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a ...

He also produced a lot of documentation in regard to Homo erectus in Olorgesailie, Turkana, and the Omo River in Ethiopia," he said. After Isaac's death in 1985, the site remained largely dormant ...

Humankind's tangled shrub of ancestry now has a new branch: Researchers in the Philippines announced today that they have discovered a species of ancient human previously unknown to science ...

When Homo sapiens appeared some 300,000 years ago, at least six other human species already shared the planet. Here, in the studio of paleoartist John Gurche, are model representations of those ...

This collection of viewable hominin fossil 3D models was produced by the Smithsonian’s Human Origins Program by 3D scanning casts and other replicas which are now on display in the Hall of Human ...