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

KNM ER 1813 Unearthed in Kenya in 1973, KNM ER 1813 is one of the most debated fossils in the study of early humans. This skull, attributed to Homo habilis, is small, with a cranial capacity of ...

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Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a ...

Homo habilis lived 2.4 million to 1.4 million years ago, and Homo erectus lived 1.89 million to 110,000 years ago. Previously, scientists thought these early humans had brains much like modern humans.

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 ...

Though chimps use tools today, and Lucy also used primitive stone tools, the Oldowan style – adopted by later australopithecines and finally by Habilis and Homo erectus after her – was our ...

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 ...