Carved zigzag marks on a shell found more than a century ago have drawn new interest from archaeologists. The half-million-year-old lines aren't from an animal, and might be art from Homo erectus.

The treasure trove of artifacts serve as clues to what life was like for this ancient human species — and dispel old and tired theories about its behavior. Homo erectus lived between about 1.89 ...

Human evolution might boil down to a lot more than what Homo erectus had for dinner. ... but you’re uncovering this direct evidence of behavior.

Homo erectus’ environment included more open grasslands than the environments of earlier human species, a source of food that provided nourishment for many hooved animals.

“The Ngandong Homo erectus fossils have the largest cranial capacity of any Homo erectus fossils,” Ciochon said. “But without additional evidence for behavior, we are unable to say that they ...

Among virtually every culture on Earth, anything worth doing is best done over dinner. Bring out a nicely braised roast, a hot loaf of bread and a slice of, oh, lemon chess pie, and rifts can be ...

Yet the changes in human anatomy after Homo erectus are relatively small." What foods we ate millions of years ago and how we processed them were important factors in our species's evolution.

For instance, Homo erectus individuals who lived less than 1.5 million years ago, ... Latest in Human Behavior. Strikingly simple 'dial' in the brain may help it distinguish imagination from reality.

Some researchers consider Homo erectus ... technological practices that endured for almost 1.5 million years and a relatively slow rate of evolutionary and behavior ... Professor of Human ...

A set of footprints found at the site of Koobi Fora in Kenya reveals that our ancestor Homo erectus coexisted with a now-extinct bipedal hominin, Paranthropus boisei, 1.5 million years ago.