Homo erectus, not sapiens ... adapted to life in desert or tropical forests marks "a turning point in the history of human survival and expansion in extreme environments," lead study author ...

Homo erectus, emerging two million years ago, marked a key step in human evolution. This exploration examines their lifestyle, behavior, and the wild Pleistocene world they navigated.

While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left Africa about 1.5 million years ago to populate other parts of the world, there are two main theories about ...

Homo erectus, regarded as the evolutionary successor to the smaller-brained Homo habilis, left a lasting imprint on history. Its fossils, found at Olduvai, offer a glimpse into a span of about a ...

Later, 50 fossils of Meganthropus palaeo and Pithecanthropus erectus/Homo erectus were found - half of all the world's known hominid fossils. Inhabited for the past one and a half million years, ...

The study "introduces a new actor in the history of human evolution in Europe ... Pink bears some resemblance to Homo erectus, which is why it has been provisionally named Homo affinis erectus.

Anthropologists have said human beings evolved in a straight line from Homo habilis to Homo erectus to us, Homo sapiens, over two million years. But fossil bones found in 2000 near Lake Turkana in ...