A paleontologist journeys through Indonesia’s Riau Archipelago in search of our earliest ancestors, and uncovers how ...

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 ...

Homo erectus was able to adapt to and survive in desert-like environments at least 1.2 million years ago, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & Environment. The findings suggest ...

Mercader, who studies human evolution, explains that the archaeological ... "By doing archeology, what we can see is that Homo erectus keeps coming back to the same place in the landscape over ...

creating large-scale climate models to figure out what conditions were like during our evolution. Their models, like the new study, suggest that Homo erectus may have thrived in environments that ...

Homo erectus developed sophisticated techniques to exploit available ... The discoveries at Oldupai redefine our understanding of human evolution. They highlight that the ability to survive in hostile ...

erectus, H. longi ... searching for clues to some of the deepest mysteries of human evolution: When did Homo sapiens arrive here? And what other humans did they encounter?

Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly ... which has played a key role in the understanding of human evolution, was actually a desert steppe, according to the study published ...