Laziness helped lead to extinction of Homo erectus

Friday, August 10, 2018 - 09:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

New archaeological research from The Australian National University (ANU) has found that Homo erectus, an extinct species of primitive humans, went extinct in part because they were ‘lazy’. An archaeological excavation of ancient human populations in the Arabian Peninsula during the Early Stone Age, found that Homo erectus used ‘least-effort strategies’ for tool making and […]

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