Scientists re-examined the skulls of our ancestors—and changed the timeline of human migration

Homo erectus skulls from China’s Yunxian archaeological site revealed ages close to two million years—a million years older ...
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Homo erectus: Facts about the first human lineage to leave Africa

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "There are a lot of firsts associated with Homo erectus," Karen Baab, a biological anthropologist at Midwestern University in ...
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Oldest wooden tools in East Asia may have come from any of three species

Someone made very sophisticated wooden tools in China 300,000 years ago, and it might have been Denisovans or even Homo erectus. The digging sticks, curved root-slicers, and a handful of somewhat ...
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1.5 million-year-old Homo erectus face was just reconstructed — and its mix of old and new traits is complicating the picture of human evolution

Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But the face staring back is complicating scientists' understanding of early ...