The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain more than one million years ago.

Instead, he resembles Homo erectus, a far more ancient human species which emerged in Africa two million years ago and was the first to walk on two legs like a modern human. The researchers ...

The fossils — which may date back to 1.4 million years — were nicknamed “Pink” in honor of iconic rock band Pink Floyd.

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Piecing together the story of Europe’s earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils are scarce.

While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left Africa about 1.5 million years ago to populate other parts of the world, there are two main theories about ...

habilis had a brain that was larger than the largest Autralopithecus brain, but smaller than the Homo erectus brain. The first example of Homo erectus, known as "Java Man," was discovered in ...