Displaying some resemblance to Homo erectus, the specimen has been assigned as Homo affinis (aff.) erectus, pending further analysis and categorization. Dr Rosa Huguet, who coordinated excavations at ...

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.

Pink’s species may have even preceded Homo erectus, which was the first human species to walk ... While it appears they ...

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

Later, 50 fossils of Meganthropus palaeo and Pithecanthropus erectus/Homo erectus were found - half of all the world's known hominid fossils. Inhabited for the past one and a half million years, ...

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 ...

The discovery joins other finds — such as a 1.4-million-year-old bone axe from Ethiopia — that suggest the human ancestor Homo erectus often used bones as tools. Tool use is a storied ...

A remarkable discovery in northern Kenya has provided the first direct evidence that two early human relatives, Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei, lived in the same environment 1.5 million ...

The fossilized facial bones were found in the Burgos province in northern Spain and correspond to a newly classified human species, Homo affinis erectus, according to an article published by ...