Compared with modern Homo sapiens, which have only been around for the last 200,000 years, Homo erectus, or "upright man," had a long reign. The ancient ancestor of modern humans lived from 2 ...

Homo erectus lived between about 1.89 million years to 110,000 years ago. It is the longest surviving of our human ancestors, and is credited as the earliest hominin to have modern human-like ...

The Sunda Shelf is home to a rich Pleistocene hominin fossil record, including specimens of Homo floresiensis, Homo ...

H. erectus persisted for more than 1.5 million years before going extinct around 100,000 years ago.It was one of the first early human species to migrate out of Africa, traveling to distant ...

Several Homo erectus skulls were recently identified as the youngest known fossils of the species, some 108,000 to 117,000 years old. These fossil replicas are housed at the University of Iowa ...

Within a few hundred thousand years of the encounter, the Paranthropus boisei would be extinct for reasons that are still unknown. By contrast, the Homo erectus species persisted for another ...

Homo erectus regularly returned to these strategic locations, demonstrating an ability to plan and adapt to environmental constraints. A diversified diet Isotopic analyses of fossils reveal a varied ...

Archaeological finds off the coast of Java, Indonesia, provide insight into the world of Homo erectus, 140,000 years ago. Skull fragments and other fossil remains provide a unique picture of how ...

Human evolution: Facts about the past 300,000 years of Homo sapiens; ... Some recent arguments suggest the hobbit specimens may have evolved from a pre-Homo. erectus hominin.