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.

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

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

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

What does that overlap mean for the linear view of human evolution? It means Homo erectus and Homo habilis are really sister species, with a common ancestor older than 2 million years. We are ...

MailOnline's graphic below shows this 'hidden chapter' in human evolution spanning from 1. ... fossil evidence suggests that species such as Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis lived both in ...

Beyond human ancestry, the researchers say their method could help to transform how scientists study the evolution of other ... that species such as Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis lived ...

Scientists have long debated how modern humans evolved. For decades, most researchers agreed that Homo sapiens came from one ...