Homo ergaster ("working man") is an extinct hominid species (or subspecies, according to some authorities) which lived throughout eastern and southern Africa between 1.9 to 1.4 million years ago with ...

If you crossed paths with Homo ergaster on an East African plain some 1.5 million to 2 million years ago, its silhouette might look a bit familiar. Long legs, a narrow torso, and a heat-adapted frame ...

Homo ergaster evolved during an accelerated period of global cooling and drying that cleared more and more tropical rainforest from Africa and created a desert in the northern half of the continent.

The presumed tool making abilities of habilis were not enough to convince many anthropologists that they should be named ‘Homo’. The species of the genus Homo have large brains, a more modern skeleton ...

An excavation in central Asia has unearthed a pair of 1.7-million-year-old fossil skulls, providing a glimpse of what may have been the first species of human ancestors to journey out of Africa. The ...

Homo ergaster is an extinct species or subspecies of archaic humans who lived in Africa in the Early Pleistocene. Whether H. ergaster constitutes a species of its own or should be subsumed into H.

Homo ergaster evolved during an accelerated period of global cooling and drying that cleared more and more tropical rainforest from Africa and created a desert in the northern half of the continent.