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

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

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 ...

That our branche of the family tree now flourishes suggests our species had some advantages in being able to survive in ...

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 ...

juluensis highlight how new perspectives are unraveling complexities in the human evolutionary tree. For decades ... into broad categories such as Homo erectus or early Homo sapiens.

But it’s never been clear what species the bones belonged to or where they should sit in an increasingly complex human family tree. Christopher Bae ... regionally from archaic hominins such as Homo ...

identified as an early Homo erectus , in Hexian, in the Anhui Province of China.The new finding suggests that these may belong to another unique branch of the human tree. Some anthropologists ...

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 ...

Today, we sit alone on the only remaining branch of the human family tree. But we are only one character in the ... But it's not until Homo erectus came on the scene about 1.9 million years ago that ...

Both agree that Homo erectus originated in Africa and expanded to Eurasia about one million years ago, but they differ in explaining the origin of modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens). The first ...