Researchers discovered that Homo erectus adapted to hyperarid conditions in Tanzania one million years ago, challenging ...

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

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

The research challenges the long-held belief that only Homo sapiens had the capacity to thrive in extreme environments.

Romania is making strides in the archaeological world after new evidence confirmed the presence of ancient hominins in the ...

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. By Carl Zimmer Chimpanzees live only in African rainforests and woodlands. Orangutans ...

Homo erectus, the first of our relatives to have human-like proportions and the first known early human to migrate out of Africa, was the focus of the new study led by the international research team.

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 ...

Early stereotypes that Chinese regions were evolutionary cul-de-sacs, where Homo erectus lingered with rudimentary ... where interbreeding and migration likely played significant roles.

Both agree that Homo erectus originated in Africa and expanded ... The first hypothesis proposes that a second migration out of Africa happened about 100,000 years ago, in which anatomically ...

Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a new study that casts doubt on the idea that Homo sapiens were the first ...