Dated to between 1.8 and 1.85 million years ago, the isolated jawbone discovered at the site was initially identified as a ...

H. erectus is a now-extinct species of early human that experts say arose some two million years ago in Africa. Walking upright, they had longer legs and shorter arms than previous hominins ...

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for the third time, the oldest human in Western Europe.

Face bones unearthed in a cave suggest that members of our genus, Homo, reached northern Spain as early as 1.4 million years ago.

Following further analysis, it soon became evident that Pink wasn’t a member of the H. antecessor family at ... resembling Homo erectus, particularly in its flat and underdeveloped nasal ...

However, there was not enough evidence to determine which species it belonged to, so researchers classified ATE7-1 as Homo affinis erectus. "The evidence is still insufficient for a definitive ...

antecessor and H. erectus. To complicate matters, he said, the H. antecessor fossil that Pink was compared to was a juvenile. "Their morphology changes as they grow up and adapt, so we don't ...

About five feet tall and weighing 100 pounds, H. habilis had a brain that was larger than the largest Autralopithecus brain, but smaller than the Homo erectus brain. The first example of Homo ...