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

Our early human ancestors might have been more adaptable than previously thought: New research suggests Homo erectus was able to survive—and even thrive—after its home in East Africa shriveled up and ...

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

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

Homo erectus is believed to have evolved about 2 ... Despite the harsh conditions, the hominins were able to gather plenty of food by butchering carcasses meat, as documented by the cut marks ...

"Our findings show that Homo erectus was capable of surviving long term in extreme environments characterised by low density of food resources, navigational challenges, very low/very high plant ...

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

Homo erectus had longer legs ... I should bring it with me and be ready if we find food,’” says study co-author Paul Durkin, a geologist at the University of Manitoba in Canada, to the ...