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 ...

This diagram called 'The March of Progress' simplifies evolution into a series of stages which took place over millions of ...

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

The 3.2-million-year-old fossil, discovered 50 years ago, is considered to be one of the most significant early hominin ...

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

Researchers agreed she was from a new species of human ... erectus—popularly nicknamed “Java Man.” Dubois believed his discovery could be the so-called “missing link” in evolution ...

"And so the big story here … is that cooking began about 1.9 million years ago with the origin of the species that most looks like us in human evolution, Homo erectus," Wrangham said.

But after two decades of research, and no small amount of controversy, we can be sure that Homo floresiensis wasn’t really anything close to a short human with big feet and a penchant for seed ...

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 ...

Dr. Simpson’s primary research addresses exploring early human evolution between 6.5 and 1.0 Ma ago. Since 1992, Dr. Simpson has been conducting paleontological field research in the Afar region of ...