Homo erectus outlived and outadapted other hominins by mastering life in extreme environments of Eastern Africa, a new study ...

A paleontologist journeys through Indonesia’s Riau Archipelago in search of our earliest ancestors, and uncovers how ...

“Now extinct, Homo erectus existed more than an estimated 1.5 million years, marking them as a species survival success in the human evolution story when compared with our own estimated existence of ...

To reconstruct the environmental conditions during the time of Homo erectus, the research team used advanced modeling ...

Homo erectus, not sapiens, first humans to survive desert: study Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a new study ...

As stated by researchers, “Homo erectus serves as a prime example of how early humans leveraged their environment for survival, paving the way for the evolution of modern humans.” They developed ...

creating large-scale climate models to figure out what conditions were like during our evolution. Their models, like the new study, suggest that Homo erectus may have thrived in environments that ...

Homo erectus was able to adapt to and survive in desert-like environments at least 1.2 million years ago, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & Environment. The findings suggest ...

“Now extinct, Homo erectus existed more than an estimated 1.5 million years, marking them as a species survival success in the human evolution story when compared with our own estimated existence of ...