Homo erectus, lived between 500 thousand and 1.5 million years ago and it is with this species that we see the first signs of organised hunting activity based around communities. They tended to ...

The Nairobi National Museum is home to unusual specimens dating back millions of years, from a famed Homo erectus skeleton to ...

Hunting with spears engages very similar muscle ... Beeping ] These teeth are from the extinct species Homo erectus, which lived 1.5 million years ago and, it turns out, depended on breastmilk ...

A reconstruction of Homo erectus - the first known human to walk fully upright An ancient relative of modern humans survived into comparatively recent times in South East Asia, a new study has ...

But it's not until Homo erectus came on the scene about 1.9 million years ago that we see the long ... A larger brain is clearly linked to a number of distinctly human traits: the ability to create ...

Its brain, no larger than a grapefruit, defied expectations for a creature capable of tool manufacturing, hunting ... of Homo ...

A reconstruction of the 1.2 million-year-old pelvis discovered in 2001 in the Gona Study Area at Afar, Ethiopia, that has led researchers to speculate early man was better equipped than first ...

The remains recovered from the cave complex include the earliest example of Homo erectus - a direct human ancestor Two million years ago, three different human-like species were living side-by ...

Again, we can only speculate, but the range of activities they engaged in probably as a group (hunting ... tools of Homo sapiens sapiens, or more like those of Homo erectus?

Homo erectus was taller than Homo habilis, more robust and had a larger brain. They developed tool-making further, producing a characteristic hand axe known as the 'Acheulian'. Fossils of ...

such as Homo erectus and Homo neanderthalensis (Neanderthals). Natural selection, acting with other evolutionary forces, like random mutation or genetic heritage, probably shaped the knee to help ...