Homo erectus evolved around two million years ... Prof Chris Stringer, research leader on human evolution at London's Natural History Museum, who was not involved with the work, commented ...

The discovery of a Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton changed our theory of human evolution forever. The discovery is ...

But it's not until Homo erectus came on the scene about 1.9 million years ago that we see the ... You can learn more about our origins and evolution in the Museum's Human Evolution gallery and this ...

A collection of 3-million-year-old bones unearthed 50 years ago in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human origins.

Also known as Homo heidelbergensis, this species has a brain that was larger than H. erectus' and smaller than that of a modern human. The brain was enclosed in a skull that was more rounded than H.

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 ...

afarensis was bipedal and moved more like a human than an ape, giving scientists more clues about human evolution ... Dutch anatomist Eugène Dubois discovered the first Homo erectus fossils in ...

This is a new and refreshing introduction to the human species that places modern humans squarely in evolutionary perspective and treats evolution itself as a continuing genetic process in which every ...

Our Human Evolution gallery explores the origins of Homo sapiens, tracing our lineage since it split from that of our closest living relatives, the chimpanzee and the bonobo. Gallery developer Jenny ...