Primitive in all the wrong ways, "National Lampoon's Homo Erectus" sets comedy back a good 2 million years, reminding auds of simpler times when a club to the head or a spear to the crotch was all it ...

The human ancestor Homo erectus emerged about two million years ago, and was thought to have all but disappeared by about 300,000 years ago. But now, an international team of scientists has uncovered ...

Researchers have recently discovered multiple assemblages of Homo erectus footprints in northern Kenya that provide unique opportunities to understand locomotor patterns and group structure through a ...

A million-year-old Homo erectus skull found in Ethiopia indicates that this human ancestor was a single species scattered widely throughout Asia, Europe and Africa, not two separate species, according ...

Before our ancestors even existed, ancient hominins might have been sailing the seas and discovering new lands. This, according to one researcher, suggests they were also talking to each other as a ...

Compared with modern humans (Homo sapiens), who have been around for the past 300,000 years, Homo erectus, or "upright human," had a long reign. The ancient human species lived from 2 million years ...

Researchers have uncovered the skulls of two individuals belonging to the species Homo erectus—one of our ancient ancestors—alongside various types of stone tool of differing complexity at a site in ...

The Gona site in Afar, Ethiopia is a hotbed of anthropological discovery. It is also, quite literally, hot. But the inhospitable climate, paleoanthropologist Sileshi Semaw tells Inverse, is likely why ...

Humans aren’t the only animals with numerical awareness, although we are alone in our ability to perform symbolic manipulations of numbers. Taking a deep-dive into the evolutionary roots of our ...

Scientists believe they have resolved a controversy over how long Homo erectus inhabited the Indonesian island of Java before dying out. New evidence -- which was published Wednesday in the journal ...

Archaeologists have discovered dozens of primitive tools fashioned by direct human ancestors in Kenya and Ethiopia 1.75 million years ago. The Acheulean age of toolmaking, noted for its thinner, more ...

If you bumped into a Homo erectus in the street you might not recognize them as being very different from you. You'd see a certain "human-ness" in the stance, and their size and shape might be similar ...