The Evolution of Homenins in Africa

Homo erectus may have at least possessed the ability to control fire to be able to stay warm and create light in an environment where winter days would have been a few hours less than in equatorial areas of africa. If home irectus was cooking its food using fire, then it would have been able to evolve its intelligence at a quicker rate and develop more resourcefulness for surviving northern hemisphere conditions. The expansion of the sahara desert would have pushed any potential homenin population out of that area. We are unsure whether a large area centred on the congo basin, would have been populated. Incidentally, this is the same area where the chimpans populations of