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The oldest evidence of Homo erectus comes from an arid hillside near ... based diet towards a diet that’s rich in protein and fat, like eating meat and bone marrow from carcasses, you have ...

Researchers have recently discovered multiple assemblages of Homo erectus footprints in northern Kenya that provide unique opportunities to understand locomotor patterns and group structure ...

The discovery of skull fragments alongside different types of stone tools in Ethiopia sheds new light on the lifestyle of the ancient hominin Homo erectus. It dispels the idea that each hominin ...

A new study suggests that Homo erectus existed 100,000 to 200,000 years earlier than previously thought, meaning they lived alongside species they were once thought to have descended from.

Homo erectus, or the first humans to walk upright, lived longer than we previously thought, according to new research. In the 1930s, two lower leg bones and 12 skull caps were discovered in ...