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 ...

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

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

For example, the Homo erectus species, with their more human-like traits ... competition for resources or other forms of social behavior. The footprints also provide valuable data on the physical ...

which gave them a distinctly modern human-like appearance. They also had bigger brains than earlier species, though not quite as large as the brains of today’s humans, Homo sapiens. H. erectus ...

The alternative view is that the capacity for modern human behavior is coincident with the origins of Homo sapiens, and that the expression of this capacity in the archaeological record was an ...