Homo erectus, not sapiens, first humans to survive desert: study Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a new study ...

So how did we become such a unique animal? Human intelligence was born in the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, as our ape ancestors evolved increasingly bigger brains. That may only have happened ...

Our film crew travelled to our original homeland, a part of the African Great Rift Valley in southern Kenya ... As Potts puts it, modern humans are climate refugees, selected to be adaptable.

Researchers believe that members of the human family - hominids - and African ... mainly based around the Great Rift Valley - a fracture in the earth's surfaces that runs 3,500 kilometres from ...