Homo erectus walked as we do 1.5-million-year-old footprints provide window to the life of Homo erectus Date: July 12, 2016 Source: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft ...

Using new technology, researchers have been able to date Homo erectus fossils precisely, placing their age between 117,000 and 108,000 years old. ABC News. Video. Live. Shows. Shop. Log In.

Homo floresiensis, another kind of early human, is likely a dwarf of the H. erectus that island-hopped in Southeast Asia, and Homo luzonensis could also have been a spin-off species, Ciochon says.

Homo erectus fossils don’t all look the same, and the difference between the earliest and most recent reveal a lot of variation as the species changed over time. They also sometimes differ by place, ...

On top of Homo sapiens, at least eight other species of our genus have walked Earth: Homo habilis, Homo rudolfensis, Homo erectus, Homo antecessor, Homo heidelbergensis, Homo naledi, Homo ...

Walking upright, they had longer legs and shorter arms than previous hominins, ... Homo sapiens. H. erectus persisted for more than 1.5 million years before going extinct around 100,000 years ago.

THE bones of a long-extinct human ancestor have been dredged up from the seafloor, just off the coast of what is now known as Indonesia. The discovery reveals a previously unknown Homo erectus popu… ...

Two species of ancient humans walked beside each other 1.5 million years ago, fossil footprints have revealed. Fossilised imprints from a lakebed in Kenya have revealed that a member of the Homo ...