Homo erectus, lived between 500 thousand and 1.5 million years ago and it is with this species that we see the first signs of organised hunting activity based around communities. They tended to ...

Hunting with spears engages very similar muscle ... Beeping ] These teeth are from the extinct species Homo erectus, which lived 1.5 million years ago and, it turns out, depended on breastmilk ...

The Nairobi National Museum is home to unusual specimens dating back millions of years, from a famed Homo erectus skeleton to ...

Its brain, no larger than a grapefruit, defied expectations for a creature capable of tool manufacturing, hunting ... of Homo ...

Again, we can only speculate, but the range of activities they engaged in probably as a group (hunting ... tools of Homo sapiens sapiens, or more like those of Homo erectus?

A reconstruction of Homo erectus - the first known human to walk fully upright An ancient relative of modern humans survived into comparatively recent times in South East Asia, a new study has ...

Mountain diversity influenced early human evolution, offering abundant resources that shaped hominin adaptation and ...

But it's not until Homo erectus came on the scene about 1.9 million years ago ... the ability to create more complex tools, more advanced hunting techniques, complex social structures and the advent ...

The remains recovered from the cave complex include the earliest example of Homo erectus - a direct human ancestor Two million years ago, three different human-like species were living side-by ...

Until agriculture was developed around 10,000 years ago, all humans got their food by hunting, gathering ... our direct ancestor, Homo erectus, took in enough extra energy at each meal to help ...

such as Homo erectus and Homo neanderthalensis (Neanderthals). Natural selection, acting with other evolutionary forces, like random mutation or genetic heritage, probably shaped the knee to help ...

A reconstruction of the 1.2 million-year-old pelvis discovered in 2001 in the Gona Study Area at Afar, Ethiopia, that has led researchers to speculate early man was better equipped than first ...