Every person on Earth today can trace their ancestry to Africa, where modern humans (Homo sapiens) emerged at least 300,000 years ago. But our ancestor Homo erectus lived in Africa, Europe and ...

While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left Africa about 1.5 million years ago to populate other parts of the world, there are two main theories about ...

erectus – which emerged in Africa some 1.9 million years ago before ... It has also been suggested that the Dmanisi hominids ...

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

The remains have helped to fill in gaps in the fossil record and move science closer to understanding human evolution in Africa.

Both Homo erectus and Homo habilis are seen in the ... That is a general problem in eastern Africa. We know very little about this particular earlier time period. No. This research shows we ...

Fossil evidence suggests that species such as Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis lived both in Africa and other regions during this period, making them potential candidates for these ancestral ...

Hominins evolved in Africa. The first species to occupy multiple continents was Homo erectus, and the first fossil evidence we have of them beyond Africa comes from Dmanisi in Georgia . These fossils ...

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