Pre-modern Homo

So when and where in human evolutionary history do we see the earliest evidence of creatures that are more like modern humans? ‘Pre-modern Homo ’ considers the species that many hominins researchers are comfortable with recognizing as members of the genus Homo . It looks at the earliest fossil evidence of pre-modern Homo from Africa, and then follows Homo as it moves out of Africa into the rest of the Old World. It begins with Homo ergaster , dated to around 2 mya, and then moves on to Homo erectus , which was found in sites in Africa, China, and Indonesia. Other pre-modern Homo species include Homo heidelbergensis ; Homo naledi ; Homo floresiensis ; and Homo neanderthalensis .

Biology · Genealogy · Living fossil · History · Paleontology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology