"We reveal how early humans -- known as hominins -- were ... around the world shows Homo erectus adapted at least 1.2 million years ago -- long before our species, Homo sapiens, emerged.

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More than a million years ago, long before our species Homo sapiens emerged, early humans adapted to desert-like conditions. Kaplan was a co-author of the findings published Thursday in the ...

erectus thrived in these arid conditions more than one million years ago, long before the emergence of H. sapiens. “Now extinct, Homo erectus existed more than an estimated 1.5 million years, marking ...