Fossil remains of Homo erectus have since been found throughout Africa and Asia, making it the first wide-ranging hominid. Despite the primitive appearance of its skull, the erectus skeleton is ...

Proposed by paleoanthropologists Xiujie Wu and Christopher Bae, the Juluren exhibit a mosaic of characteristics—some shared with Neanderthals, others absent in Denisovans, Homo erectus ...

The proportions of skull to pelvis indicates that his sisters ... With the appearance Homo erectus/ergaster in the fossil record we also see the first use of fire, the first appearance of more ...

As a paleontologist, I traveled in May 2023 to the Indonesian islands of the Riau Archipelago, just south of Singapore, as part of an ongoing quest for evidence of Homo erectus, one of our oldest ...

The skull fragments, teeth ... day human populations evolved regionally from archaic hominins such as Homo erectus, which left Africa about 2 million years ago. In effect, this scientific model ...

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 ...

Paris (AFP) – Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a new study that casts doubt on the idea that 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 Chimpanzees live only in African rainforests and woodlands. Orangutans ...

PARIS: Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a new study that casts doubt on the idea that Homo sapiens were the ...