Small settlements and the scourge of slavery left gaps in Africa’s archaeological record. Yet sites and artifacts are ...

The oldest Australopithecus is A. anamensis, found in northern Kenya and dating to more than 4 million years ago, closely followed by A. afarensis in Ethiopia— Lucy’s species —and A ...

Erectus gave way to Lucy's best-known descendants -- Homo sapiens ("sappy man"). Sapiens evolved a mere 400,000 years ago with the Neanderthals.

Over a million years ago, Homo erectus defied the extreme conditions of African deserts. A recent study reveals how this ancestor of humanity thrived in arid environments, long before Homo sapiens ...

Homo erectus was also the most successful of all human species, at least so far. They survived for a staggering period of time, nearly two million years, before fading out about 110,000 years ago ...

Homo erectus is believed to have evolved about 2 million years ago in Africa. They were the first to reach the stature of modern humans, and they had long slender legs to run on.

Homo erectus is a key ancestor of modern humans. Emerging at least two million years ago, they were the first to develop human-like proportions and the first to migrate out of Africa, eventually ...

Homo Erectus Thrived in a Desert, Study Finds, Suggesting the Early Humans Could Adapt to Extreme Environments New research suggests modern humans aren’t the only hominin species capable of ...

Homo erectus had been in Asia for more than a million years by the time Gantangqing’s lakeshore was occupied; the oldest Homo erectus fossils in Asia are from Indonesia and date back 1.8 million ...

Lucy the “paleo-rock star” took our major fossil evidence for bipedal walking, human-like creatures (collectively known as hominins) beyond 3 million years for the first time.