For decades, common scientific knowledge has held that homo sapiens—human beings as we ... found that Anadoluvius might have lived in a dry forest environment and not been a tree-swinging ...

Homo erectus, not sapiens, first humans to survive desert ... were believed to be limited to less hostile ecosystems, such as forest, grasslands and wetlands. One of the world's most important ...

A study suggests that Homo sapiens may have benefited from the use of ochre and tailored clothing during a period of increased UV light 41,000 years ago, during the Laschamps excursion.

ramidus suggest that the species lived in the forest. Exhibiting some chimp-like ... Fossil remains of archaic Homo sapiens have been found in Africa and Europe. Averaging five and a half feet ...

While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left Africa about 1.5 million years ago to populate other parts of the world, there are two main theories about ...

"The secure attribution of stone tool assemblages with the wet forest environment demonstrates that Africa's forests were not a major ecological barrier" for homo sapiens at that stage. Among the ...