“Now extinct, Homo erectus existed more than an estimated 1.5 million years ... Dating techniques placed human occupation at approximately 990,000 years ago. While the evidence is substantial ...

One can imagine the challenges of adapting to weather patterns becoming so increasingly unpredictable and extreme. Homo erectus, whose name means “upright human,” first appeared in Africa around 2 ...

Dec. 12, 2024 — Neanderthal genes make up 1-2% of the genomes of non-Africans. Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans ...

Credit: SciTechDaily.com Over a million years ago, Homo erectus demonstrated remarkable adaptability by thriving in harsh desert environments, contradicting previous beliefs that only Homo sapiens ...

This study offers fresh insights into the survival mechanisms of early humans, challenging assumptions that their habitats were limited to fertile and temperate regions. As stated by researchers, ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Urbanization of the Human Population ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 213 No. 3 (September 1965), p. 40 doi:10.1038 ...

The number of people at state pension age is projected to rise by 1.7 million from mid-2022 and mid-2032, up from an estimated 12.0 million to 13.7 million people. This projection accounts for the ...

The researchers have just used it to study an ancient human ancestor called Australopithecus, which lived around 3 million years ago. "These are still fairly ape-like, small-brained hominins ...

More than 1.2 million years ago, our ancestors Homo erectus developed ... The adaptation was important to human survival, breaking us out of our dependence on a relatively scarce ecosystem.

"And then we found this positive effect of human population density on survival time. Both of those things are unexpected because we usually associate human activity with detrimental effects on ...

That’s according to a study of sediment cores from in and around the Aegean Sea, which found the earliest-known evidence of human-caused contamination from lead, and tied it to the area’s inhabitants ...