A set of footprints found at the site of Koobi Fora in Kenya reveals that our ancestor Homo erectus coexisted ... by our direct ancestor H. erectus, which had a very human-like body shape and ...

Footprints found in Koobi Fora, Kenya, reveal Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei coexisted 1.5 million years ago, with ...

Scientists have discovered traces of different human ancestors meeting in Kenya 1.5 million years ago. A new study describes ...

A University of Hawaiʻi researcher says he may have found a new human species called Homo juluensis ... that cannot easily be assigned to Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis or Homo sapiens ...

We hypothesize that those more humanlike footprints are more likely Homo erectus just because the rest of their anatomy is so human,” Hatala said. “Paranthropus boisei, they look quite different.

Researchers have discovered footprints that show two species of ancient human relatives may have ... one set of footprints belonged to Homo erectus, an ancestor to modern humans, while the other ...

Thursday’s findings also raises a question: How did these two distinct species of prehistoric human relatives interact ... to chewing vegetables, the Homo erectus was more of a hunter-gatherer.

After the rapidly expanding australopithecines, it is a relief to find the next 1.5 million years of human evolution looking rather simpler. One hominin—Homo erectus—becomes supreme ...

The study identifies the footprints as belonging to Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei ... an author of the study.The term “hominin” refers to all species within the human lineage, including extinct ...

As Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei – a direct ancestor and an ancestral relative of modern humans, respectively – lived their lives in the Turkana Basin, they left their footprints, impressed ...