Homo habilis, erectus were the same species, study suggests. A 1.8 million year old skull of a human ancestor buried under a medieval village in Georgia indicates that humans' family tree may have ...

Typically, Homo erectus were taller than Homo habilis or Australopithecus, but had shorter arms, presumably because they walked upright more often and didn’t spend as much time in trees. The erectus ...

Now, habilis and erectus are thought to be sister species that overlapped in time. The new fossil evidence reveals an overlap of about 500,000 years during which Homo habilis and Homo erectus must ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the humid foothills of the Caucasus Mountains, deep within a carnivore's bloody lair, an early human ancestor fought a life-or-death struggle, and lost.

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, ...