While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left Africa about 1.5 million years ago to populate other parts of the world, there are two main theories about ...

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

Learn more about how Homo erectus may have adapted to dryer, arid conditions before Homo sapiens.

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. By Carl Zimmer ...

Early humans adapted to harsh conditions over a million years ago, researchers find - Our early human ancestors had a much ...

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.

While new studies have reinforced the idea of Neanderthal and Homo sapiens admixture in Europe, the picture in South Asia ...

These early Homo sapiens pioneers in Europe faced harsh Ice ... role modern humans played in the extinction of Neanderthals. We find it at least plausible that the relatively small incoming ...