A paleontologist journeys through Indonesia’s Riau Archipelago in search of our earliest ancestors, and uncovers how ...

They picked a site in northern Tanzania called Engaji Nanyori where paleoanthropologists had previously found fossils of Homo erectus. Homo erectus is believed to have evolved about 2 million ...

They gathered large datasets from recently excavated areas, analyzed sedimentary layers, and established a precise chronological framework for Homo erectus fossils found during the 1960s.

A cache of human-like fossils from China has perplexed scientists for decades, defying explanation or categorization. The skull fragments, teeth, jaws and other remains unearthed ...

Homo erectus regularly returned to these strategic locations, demonstrating an ability to plan and adapt to environmental constraints. Isotopic analyses of fossils reveal a varied diet. Homo erectus ...

Back then, many paleoanthropologists thought that present-day human populations evolved regionally from archaic hominins such as Homo erectus ... fossils into species could obscure the real ...