They showed signs of complex behavior, such as planning hunts and possibly ... With a varied diet that included both meat and plants, Homo erectus played a crucial role in human evolution, bridging ...

Harrison Many astronauts and cosmonauts have described the Cosmic Perspective as a life-changing upgrade for the modern human mind ... us all the way back to Homo erectus, Australopithecines ...

Examining the nature and origin of human intelligence and the intersection with machine intelligence in the past, present and ...

The track-making species Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei are on two different branches of the hominin family tree. Credit: Smithsonian Human Origins Program ... New clues about their behavior ...

The parallels between chimpanzee and hominin behavior challenge long-held assumptions. For decades, tool use was considered a uniquely human trait, tied to the emergence of the genus Homo.

Back then, many paleoanthropologists thought that present-day human populations evolved regionally from archaic hominins such as Homo erectus, which left Africa about 2 million years ago.

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 ...

Evidence from Engaji Nanyori suggests prolonged human occupation of arid steppe deserts, highlighting early Homo erectus’ ability to persist in challenging environments. This adaptability likely ...

A million years ago, researchers have found, an extinct species of human relatives known as Homo erectus thrived in a harsh desert landscape once considered off limits before Homo sapiens came along.

Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly ... The moment when the first members of the extended human family called hominins adapted to life in desert or tropical forests marks ...