homo

This is very unusual as scientists believe that the Homo erectus species that left Africa had already adapted to life as a "bipedalist" (the ability to walk on two feet).

Homo luzonensis had a mix of primitive features resembling Australopithecus and more modern ones closer to Homo sapiens, Mijares explained.

'We have to stay cautious about it, especially because people will immediately have Homo floresiensis in mind as a 'model' for the physical appearance of Homo luzonensis, which was certainly not the case,' said Detroit, a paleoanthropologist.

"We have to stay cautious about it, especially because people will immediately have Homo floresiensis in mind as a 'model' for the physical appearance of Homo luzonensis, which was certainly not the case," said paleoanthropologist Florent Detroit of the Musee de l'Homme-Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris.

Recent discoveries of other human species like Homo floresiensis, also in the Philippines and Homo naledi in South Africa shows these groups existed much more recently than was thought.

Homo erectus is thought to have lived in hunter-gatherer societies.

Participants transcribed either a passage about homo economicus (experimental condition) or one about psychological methods (control condition).

As Homo sapiens becomes Homo deus, what new destinies will we set for ourselves?

naledi represent a variant of Homo erectus, as some scientists have argued.

This is the earliest specimen that has been given the name homo, which is Latin for "man".

This find has important implications for our understanding of early human dispersal and evolution in the region and quashes once and for all any doubters that believe Homo floresiensis was merely a sick modern human (Homo sapiens), lead researcher, University of Wollongong archaeologist

The skull of Homo naledi has a spiny bone in its nasal cavity.