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

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

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

"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 ...

A new study suggests that "Lucy," perhaps the world's most famous ... About 2 million years ago, our Homo erectus ancestors first got the ability to walk and run on two legs efficiently.

Homo erectus was able to adapt to and survive in desert-like environments at least 1.2 million years ago, according to a ...

The new work also revealed the earliest known example of Homo erectus, a species thought to ... Australopithecus (the group made famous by the "Lucy" fossil from Ethiopia), Paranthropus and ...

Lucy, an early human ancestor who walked upright ... running evolved later in the human lineage, particularly with Homo erectus, who had body proportions closer to modern humans and anatomical ...

This species includes "Lucy," the 3.2 million year old fossil ... but smaller than the Homo erectus brain. The first example of Homo erectus, known as "Java Man," was discovered in Indonesia ...

His legs were relatively long in proportion to his body compared to earlier hominids like Lucy. With his tall ... With the appearance Homo erectus/ergaster in the fossil record we also see ...

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