The Spanish team says the latest remains are more primitive than Homo antecessor but bear a resemblance to Homo erectus.

Teeth found at the same site, while smaller in size, bore a “high degree of similarity” to Homo erectus teeth unearthed in Java. Digital microscopy of the bone’s structure indicated it ...

Homo erectus, however, had smaller teeth, which indicates that they likely ate both plants and meat. Scientists believe that ...

Archaeologists have discovered fossilized facial bones of an ancient human race which lived roughly 1.4 million years ago, ...

Homo erectus, remains of which have been found in Java, Indonesia, and mainland China, tended to have much narrower jawbones and smaller teeth. Researchers say that this suggests the robust-jawed ...

Rather, the facial fragments belong to Homo affinis erectus—and the finding, reported today in Nature, indicates that the human population in Europe turned over at the end of the Early Pleistocene.

But from the shape of the teeth, it was clear that the bones belonged to a human relative. Experts think the first expansion of hominins out of Africa began around 1.8 million years ago, when H.

However, their teeth, as well as their leg and pelvis ... but smaller than the Homo erectus brain. The first example of Homo erectus, known as "Java Man," was discovered in Indonesia in 1893.

While experts haven’t confirmed Pink’s exact hominin species just yet, they may belong to our famous evolutionary relative, Homo erectus. Hominins began migrating into Eurasia at least 1.8 ...