Homo erectus munched on crunchy, brittle and tough foods, while other early humans seemed to favour softer fare, ... Homo erectus ate crunchy food. Tuesday, 22 November 2005 Jennifer Viegas ...

Extinct human relatives known as Homo erectus cooked and prepared their foods, paving the way for long-term survival, a study suggests. By studying remains and DNA extracted from fossils of ...

The diet and social implications for homo erectus was profoundly changed when food was cooked for the first time -- but when was fire introduced? This is a question that Prof. Richard Wrangham ...

Homo erectus fossils discovered on the island of Java come from a population that died between 117,000 and 108,000 years ago, researchers found. ... which may have led to food insecurity.

Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a ...

Last of the Homo erectus were wiped out by climate change in a 'mass death event' just 110,000 years ago ... The truth behind the world's most famous food Sponsored; ...

Here’s something for raw-food aficionados to chew on: Cooked food might be a big reason humans were able to grow such large brains compared to their body size, scientists say. If modern human ...

Homo erectus was an ancient human ancestor that lived between 2 million and 100,000 years ago. It had ... Those bigger brains and bodies required more food and energy to survive.

Another recent study suggests that Homo erectus also cooked their food, further boosting the growth of our ancestors’ brains. The study is available here. Back to the Science Now blog.

If you’re into ancient anthropology, you’ve probably seen a headline or two touting a new discovery about Homo erectus—that laziness may have done them in.

Between 108,000 and 117,000 years ago, the first humans to walk upright took their last stand. Researchers have discovered the youngest fossils of Homo erectus in Central Java, Indonesia, an ...