because we expected that the toolmaker at Mata Menge would be a large-bodied Homo erectus,” said Gerrit van den Bergh of Australia’s University of Wollongong, another author of the study.

Researchers in Australia recently discovered a 2 million ... a cousin species to our predecessors, Homo erectus. Many recent ...

Q: There is debate today (at least in some circles) regarding a possible Homo erectus genetic contribution to indigenous populations in Australia/Tasmania (citing cranial features such as ...

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The team suspects the specimens belonged to Homo erectus, a species well-known from fossils found in Africa and Asia but whose remains have never been conclusively found in Europe. The mountainous ...

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 ...

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 ...