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A million years ago, researchers have found, an extinct species of human relatives known as Homo erectus thrived in a harsh desert landscape once considered off limits before Homo sapiens came along.

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

New research suggests Homo erectus was able to survive—and even thrive—after its home in East Africa shriveled up and became a dry, barren landscape. H. erectus is a now-extinct species of ...

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

sapiens. Homo erectus thrived for an estimated 1.5 million years before their extinction. Their population rapidly declined due to severe climate change, when their environment transformed from open ...

erectus thrived in these arid conditions more than one million years ago, long before the emergence of H. sapiens. “Now extinct, Homo erectus existed more than an estimated 1.5 million years, marking ...

The multidisciplinary analysis by researchers at UCalgary, the University of Manitoba and 17 other institutions around the world shows Homo erectus adapted at least 1.2 million years ago -- long ...

Spanning an area of 50 hectares in the Great Rift Valley, between the extinct volcanoes of Mount Olorgesailie and Mount ...