Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "There are a lot of firsts associated with Homo erectus," Karen Baab, a biological anthropologist at Midwestern University in ...

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 ...

Researchers have recovered Homo erectus bones from the seafloor, which points to an unknown hominin population hunting on land that is now underwater in Southeast Asia. When you purchase through links ...

New evidence reveals Homo erectus mastered survival in Tanzania’s ancient deserts, proving they were adaptable generalists long before modern humans emerged. Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Image Credit: t.m ...

Homo sapiens might have been the dominant species on the planet for millennia, but it wasn't always that way. When the first Homo sapiens emerged around 300,000 years ago, our ancestors were just one ...

Well if there's one thing genomic analysis has taught us, it's that no hominid is ever really gone. Seriously though. We've got, what, two Denisovan sites and there is already evidence for possible ...

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