Homo erectus is widely recognized as the ancestor of human beings. Besides Nanjing Man mentioned above, fossils of the subspecies of Homo erectus found in China also include Peking Man, Yuanmou Man, ...
A recent discovery stemming from a massive construction project reveals evidence of a previously unknown group of Homo erectus that lived off the coast of Java, Indonesia, 140,000 years ago. Skull ...
The skull had the brow of a descendant but the face of an ancestor. When researchers finished reconstructing the DAN5/P1 cranium from Ethiopia’s Afar region, dated to between 1.6 and 1.5 million years ...