Rather, the facial fragments belong to Homo affinis erectus—and the finding, reported today in Nature, indicates that the human population in Europe turned over at the end of the Early Pleistocene.

A fossil of a partial face from a human ancestor is the oldest in western Europe, archaeologists reported Wednesday. The incomplete skull — a section of the left cheek bone and upper jaw – was found ...

Our early human ancestors might have been more adaptable than previously thought: New research suggests Homo erectus was able ... inhabit such a wide geographic range? Researchers have long ...

Homo erectus arose around 2 million years ago and ... to if there's only a single fragment versus many bones that show a range of features, said University of Zurich paleoanthropologist Christoph ...

While experts haven’t confirmed Pink’s exact hominin species just yet, they may belong to our famous evolutionary relative, Homo erectus. Hominins began migrating into Eurasia at least 1.8 ...

The team suspects the specimens belonged to Homo erectus, a species well-known from fossils found in Africa and Asia but whose remains have never been conclusively found in Europe. The mountainous ...

While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left Africa about 1.5 million years ago to populate other parts of the world, there are two main theories about ...

Original fossil (ATE7-1) alongside the mirrored right side by means of virtual 3D imaging techniques of the face of a hominin assigned to Homo aff. erectus found in level the TE7 of Sima del Elefante ...

resembling Homo erectus, particularly in its flat and underdeveloped nasal structure,” explained María Martinón-Torres, another of the authors, and director of the National Research Center on ...

Early Homo sapiens shared the planet with other human species like Neanderthals and Homo erectus, but gradually ... its revised age now falls within a range of approximately 318,000 to 254,000 ...