Homo erectus may have gone extinct because they were lazy, new research claims

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Channel: Creative-Tube · 2018 · Science & Technology

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Tools were 'comparatively low quality' and built using whatever was lying around
Their 'laziness' was paired with an inability to adapt to a changing climate
Homo erectus were first thought to have evolved 1.9 million years ago in Africa 
Researchers studied the ancient human populations in the Arabian Peninsula

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