Homo erectus, emerging two million years ago, marked a key step in human evolution. This exploration examines their lifestyle, behavior, and the wild Pleistocene world they navigated.

Our early human ancestors might have been ... though not quite as large as the brains of today’s humans, Homo sapiens. H. erectus persisted for more than 1.5 million years before going extinct ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ancestral lineages.

Homo Erectus This species, until recently known by a multiplicity of other names, was probably the immediate predecessor of modern man. It now seems possible that the transition took place some ...

Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning ...

Homo heidelbergensis, shares features with both modern humans and our homo erectus ancestors. The early human species had a very large browridge, and a larger braincase and flatter face than ...

The oldest in Western Europe, this fractured skull has introduced a series of new questions about early humanity.

The exciting fossils also indicate that at least two subspecies lived in the region during the Early Pleistocene ... our famous evolutionary relative, Homo erectus. Hominins began migrating ...

The remains have helped to fill in gaps in the fossil record and move science closer to understanding human evolution in Africa.

The individual, now called “Pink,” is thought to be more primitive than Homo antecessor—a hominin which lived in the area 800,000 to 900,000 years ago—and closer to Homo erectus.