Homo erectus outlived and outadapted other hominins by mastering life in extreme environments of Eastern Africa, a new study ...

A million years ago, researchers have found, an extinct species of human relatives known as Homo erectus thrived in a harsh desert landscape ... space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.

The terrain is often rough, and to top it all off, there is minimal water. Desert inhabitants must be adaptable to survive these harsh conditions. As humans, to thrive in desert life, we must find ...

But even small changes in temperature or precipitation could drastically impact plants and animals living in the desert ... cover a quarter of Earth. Human activities such as firewood gathering ...

Homo erectus, not sapiens, first humans to survive desert: study Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a new study ...

New research suggests that early humans had the ability to thrive in a desert, indicating that they were more adaptable […] ...

Sometimes it can seem like our lives are very separate from nature…That the natural world is a distant rain forest, a far-away desert ... of it by humans was having a negative impact on the ...

The moment when the first members of the extended human family called hominins adapted to life in desert or tropical forests marks “a turning point in the history of human survival and expansion ...