Two Homo erectus skull fragments discovered during dredging in the Madura Strait in Indonesia have opened a new window onto ...

Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest known Homo erectus fossils in eastern Asia. A recent study has re-dated the skulls to ...

China’s fossils are rewriting our human story New fossil analyses from China are challenging what we thought we knew about human evolution. The Yunxian skulls, once thought to be Homo erectus, are now ...

Homo erectus is arguably the first hominin that really started to resemble us, with shorter arms and longer legs than species that came before. It was also the first human ancestor known to have ...

Tom has a master’s degree in biochemistry from the University of Oxford and his interests range from immunology and microscopy to the philosophy of science.View full profile Tom has a master’s degree ...