"Lucy," our 3.2 million-year-old hominin relative ... efficiently on two feet arose around 2 million years ago with our Homo erectus ancestors. But our earlier relatives, the australopithecines ...

Similar to the Cosmic Perspective, The Primate Perspective offers us a more grounded and rational understanding of who we are ...

Lucy, a 3.2-million-year-old ancestor of humans ... and run efficiently on two legs began two million years ago with Homo erectus. We also know that four million years ago, Australopithecus ...

Researchers discovered that Homo erectus adapted to hyperarid conditions in Tanzania one million years ago, challenging ...

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

The picture of human evolution has changed repeatedly and dramatically over the past half century, shaped by waves of new fossil discovery, technology, and scientific techniques.

Over a million years ago, Homo erectus demonstrated remarkable adaptability by thriving in harsh desert environments, ...