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.

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

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

A million years ago, researchers have found, an extinct species of human relatives ... were like during our evolution. Their models, like the new study, suggest that Homo erectus may have thrived ...

Researchers Categorize New Human Species After Fossils Found in China Reveal a Group That Vanished 50,000 Years Ago Extensive ...

“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 ...

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

Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly ... which has played a key role in the understanding of human evolution, was actually a desert steppe, according to the study published ...

Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a ...

Our human ancestors fundamentally changed their eating behavior in the Neolithic period. This was when they began to cultivate cereals and domesticate wild animals.