Somehow, H. erectus was able to adjust to this new landscape. The early humans visited water holes that popped up after it ...

A long-standing question about when archaic members of the genus Homo adapted to harsh environments such as deserts and rainforests has been answered in a new research paper.

The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances ...

Explore the remarkable survival strategies of Homo erectus in extreme desert conditions. Discover how they thrived in harsh ...

A team of climate geochemists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, University of the Witwatersrand and Princeton ...

An early human ancestor of our species successfully navigated harsher and more arid terrains for longer in Eastern Africa ...

Our early human ancestors had a much greater adaptability to survive in extreme environments than previously thought ...

Gifting began in Africa, when the first humans like us emerged. It then evolved as people migrated and was adapted to fit different cultures. Early examples involved the transfer of cattle or ...

For many countries around the world, December is an intense, commercialised period of gift-giving. Not just within families but across all sorts of relationships, such as gifts between buyers and ...

On the basis of evidence found at one of Africa's most important geological ... in Northern Botswana sing When it came to hunting, early humans tended to seek out smaller animals such as rodents ...

Scientists have long agreed that early humans mated with Neanderthals, but a pair of recent studies have shed light on when exactly this DNA mixing occurred. Such a revelation could help geneticists ...