Human ancestor species Homo erectus arrived in East Asia hundreds of thousands of years earlier than previously thought, a new fossil discovery in China shows. Homo erectus, a distant ancestor of ...

Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest known Homo erectus fossils in eastern Asia. A recent study has re-dated the skulls to ...

What if Homo erectus (H. erectus), the direct ancestor of modern humans, arrived in China much earlier than we thought? Research published in Science Advances may rewrite our understanding of early ...

Ali Larter is truly starting her 50s on such a dreamy note: with her family and showing off her stunning beachside looks! In case you missed it, earlier this week, Larter shared a darling photo dump ...

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A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis. Scientists ...

Jeff Gordon arrived in New Hampshire for the summer race in 1995 straddling the two parts of his career -- the learning and the applying. He had spent 1993 and 1994 fast but more likely to crumple his ...

Humans are the only primates with a chin, leaving biologists to wonder why we acquired this unique feature. According to a new analysis of head anatomy in apes, it probably didn’t evolve for a ...

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Homo erectus emerged around 2 million years ago and survived until roughly 117,000 to 108,000 years ago, making it one of the ...

Their species name is well known, but until recently we’ve understood very little for certain about Homo habilis. Columnist ...