The species’ name can be shortened to Homo aff. erectus. In taxonomy, “aff.” comes from the Latin affinis, meaning “related to,” and it’s often used to indicate a species closely ...

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 ...

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for ...

Homo Erectus This species, until recently known by a multiplicity of other names, was probably the immediate predecessor of modern man. It now seems possible that the transition took place some ...

The intricate cave system perched deep in an isolated stretch of Spanish mountains contained the remains of an ancient and ...

It means Homo erectus and Homo habilis are really sister species, with a common ancestor older than 2 million years. We are working in areas between about 1.6 and 2 million years in age.

What we do know at the moment is that it resembles 'Homo erectus' and that it is clearly different from the species we have known so far in Europe," Xosé Pedro Rodríguez-Álvarez, a specialist ...

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ancestral lineages.

Archaelogists work on excavation at level TE7 of the Sima del Elefante site at Sierra de Atapuerca ...

Researchers believe Pink bears some similarities to Homo erectus, thought to be the first human species to have migrated out of Africa roughly 2 million years ago. The species is reportedly ...