Lucy, a 3.2-million-year-old ancestor of humans ... and run efficiently on two legs began two million years ago with Homo erectus. We also know that four million years ago, Australopithecus ...

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

Lucy, an early human ancestor who walked upright ... running evolved later in the human lineage, particularly with Homo erectus, who had body proportions closer to modern humans and anatomical ...

This species includes "Lucy," the 3.2 million year old fossil ... but smaller than the Homo erectus brain. The first example of Homo erectus, known as "Java Man," was discovered in Indonesia ...

The discovery joins other finds — such as a 1.4-million-year-old bone axe from Ethiopia — that suggest the human ancestor ...

Pink' may have been a member of the Homo erectus family. By Andrew Paul Posted Yesterday The partial jawbone from a human ancestor nicknamed “Pink” is helping rewrite the history of hominin ...

His legs were relatively long in proportion to his body compared to earlier hominids like Lucy. With his tall ... With the appearance Homo erectus/ergaster in the fossil record we also see ...

The partial skull bears many similarities to Homo erectus, but there are also some anatomical differences, said study co-author Rosa Huguet, an archaeologist at the Catalan Institute of Human ...

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 ...

Prof Scott Simpson from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio was our contributor for Homo Erectus and Prof Carol Ward from the University of Missouri helped explain why ‘Lucy ...