It is considered by many researchers to belong to a species called Homo heidelbergensis - a common ancestor of modern humans and Neanderthals. But scientists who have dated small samples of bone ...

Researchers looking at human evolution have suggested that the human ancestor Homo heidelbergensis, which lived between 600,000 and 300,000 years ago, left Africa about 400,000 years ago.

In 1911, an extraordinary archaeological discovery was made in the small coastal town of Clacton-on-Sea (Essex, England). Samuel Hazzledine Warren, an amateur prehistorian who had been searching for ...

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Homo erectus was probably the first hominid to use fire. Also known as Homo heidelbergensis, this species has a brain that was larger than H. erectus' and smaller than that of a modern human.

Previously, those fossils - mostly discovered between 1908 and the late 1970s in Europe, Africa, and Asia - were all considered part of the same ancestor group, called Homo heidelbergensis.

H. sapiens emerged around 300,000 years ago, evolving from Homo heidelbergensis and migrating out of Africa, gradually replacing local populations of archaic humans. For most of history, all humans ...

Homo antecessor might have become extinct from Europe some 600,000 years ago and next came Homo heidelbergensis, followed by the Neanderthals and finally, the modern humans or Homo sapiens, who ...

The population decline may explain gaps in the African fossil record and could have impacted the genetic diversity of human ancestors, influencing the evolution of Homo heidelbergensis ...