Homo erectus laid the groundwork for all other human species that came after it, they were the first to travel continents, to use and create fire, possibly creating shelters, clothing and possibly ...

Someone brought them. That someone, it now seems, was our ancestors. Possibly Homo erectus, one of the first species to walk ...

Homo erectus was probably the first hominid to use fire. Also known as Homo heidelbergensis, this species has a brain that was larger than H. erectus' and smaller than that of a modern human.

Stone tools recently discovered in Ukraine could potentially rewrite history as the oldest evidence of human presence in ...

The fire flickered in the center ... the genetic code that set Homo sapiens apart from their ancestors. Unlike Homo erectus and Homo naledi, who lived and thrived for thousands of years, these ...

Original fossil of the midface of a hominin assigned to Homo aff. erectus recovered at level TE7 ... more familiar human body proportions and use fire and tools. Remains of the species have ...

This means it bears some similarities to the face of Homo erectus -- but not enough that the scientists could confirm that Pink was a member of this important human ancestor. So the scientists ...