A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. By Carl Zimmer ...

Learn more about how Homo erectus may have adapted to dryer, arid conditions before Homo sapiens.

In a nutshell Scientists have discovered that Homo erectus adapted to extreme desert conditions in East Africa one million ...

More than 1.2 million years ago, our ancestors Homo erectus developed the tools and intellectual capacity to survive in very ...

An early human ancestor of our species successfully navigated harsher and more arid terrains for longer in Eastern Africa than previously thought ...

A major archaeological discovery has recently been made near King’s House, where researchers have uncovered Europe’s oldest ...

It is believed that a remote Indonesian island was once home to an ancient human species that could still be alive today.

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering ...

Similar to the Cosmic Perspective, The Primate Perspective offers us a more grounded and rational understanding of who we are ...

Dec. 19, 2024 — Fossilized skeletons and shells clearly show how evolution and extinction unfolded over the past half a billion years, but a new analysis extends the chart of life to nearly 2 ...

Ironically, given the urban wildfire wiping out huge areas of Los Angeles, man’s control of his environment began with the “domestication of fire” by Homo erectus about a million years ago. And the ...

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