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homo erectus

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Definitions of homo erectus in various dictionaries:

noun - extinct species of primitive hominid with upright stature but small brain

HOMO ERECTUS - A hypothetical genus of primates intermediate between man and the anthropoid apes.

HOMO ERECTUS - Homo erectus (meaning "upright man") is an extinct species of archaic humans that lived throughout most of the Pleistocene geological epoch. Its ear...

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Old man?
Distant ancestor
Being upright can transform our homes etc
Early man, walking upright — cue theorems (anag)
Early hominid
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May 12 2019 The Times - Specialist
May 13 2018 The Times - Concise

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Discovered in 1984, the Nariokotome boy was assigned to this species of standup guys from 1 ½ million B.C.
Java Man & Peking Man are examples of this guy who stands between Australopithecus & Homo sapiens
By 500,000 B.C., fire was being controlled & used by this "upright" species
Anthropologists say this was the first of the genus Homo to leave Africa, sometime after 1.8 million years ago

Homo erectus description
Homo erectus (meaning "upright man") is an extinct species of archaic humans that lived throughout most of the Pleistocene geological epoch. * Its earliest fossil evidence dates to 1.8 million years ago (discovered 1991 in Dmanisi, Georgia).A debate regarding the classification, ancestry, and progeny of H. erectus, especially in relation to Homo ergaster, is ongoing, with two major positions: * 1) H. erectus is the same species as H. ergaster, and thereby H. erectus is a direct ancestor of the later hominins including Homo heidelbergensis, Homo antecessor, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo Denisova, and Homo sapiens; or, * 2) it is in fact an Asian species or subspecies distinct from African H. ergaster.Some paleoanthropologists consider H. ergaster to be a variety, that is, the "African" variety, of H. erectus; the labels "Homo erectus sensu stricto" (strict sense) for the Asian species and "Homo erectus sensu lato" (broad sense) have been offered for the greater species comprising both Asian and African populations.H. erectus was never extinct, but developed into derived species, notably Homo heidelbergensis. * As a chronospecies, the time of its disappearance is thus a matter of convention. The species name proposed in 1950 * defines Java Man as the type specimen (now H. e. erectus). Since then, there has been a trend in palaeoanthropology of reducing the number of proposed species of Homo, to the point where H. erectus includes all * early (Lower Paleolithic) forms of Homo sufficiently derived from H. habilis and * distinct from early H. heidelbergensis (in Africa also known as H. rhodesiensis). In this wider sense, H. erectus had mostly been replaced by H. heidelbergensis by about 500,000 years ago, with possible late survival in Java as late as 140,000 years ago. * The discovery of the morphologically divergent Dmanisi skull 5 in 2013 has reinforced the trend of subsuming fossils formerly given separate species names under H. erectus considered as a wide-ranging, polymorphous species. Thus, H. ergaster is now well within the accepted morphological range of H. erectus, and it has been suggested that even H. rudolfensis and H. habilis (alternatively suggested as late forms of Australopithecus rather than early Homo) * should be considered early varieties of H. erectus.

Homo erectus description

Homo erectus (meaning "upright man") is an extinct species of archaic humans that lived throughout most of the Pleistocene geological epoch.
* Its earliest fossil evidence dates to 1.8 million years ago (discovered 1991 in Dmanisi, Georgia).A debate regarding the classification, ancestry, and progeny of H. erectus, especially in relation to Homo ergaster, is ongoing, with two major positions: * 1) H. erectus is the same species as H. ergaster, and thereby H. erectus is a direct ancestor of the later hominins including Homo heidelbergensis, Homo antecessor, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo Denisova, and Homo sapiens; or,
* 2) it is in fact an Asian species or subspecies distinct from African H. ergaster.Some paleoanthropologists consider H. ergaster to be a variety, that is, the "African" variety, of H. erectus; the labels "Homo erectus sensu stricto" (strict sense) for the Asian species and "Homo erectus sensu lato" (broad sense) have been offered for the greater species comprising both Asian and African populations.H. erectus was never extinct, but developed into derived species, notably Homo heidelbergensis.
* As a chronospecies, the time of its disappearance is thus a matter of convention. The species name proposed in 1950
* defines Java Man as the type specimen (now H. e. erectus). Since then, there has been a trend in palaeoanthropology of reducing the number of proposed species of Homo, to the point where H. erectus includes all
* early (Lower Paleolithic) forms of Homo sufficiently derived from H. habilis and
* distinct from early H. heidelbergensis (in Africa also known as H. rhodesiensis). In this wider sense, H. erectus had mostly been replaced by H. heidelbergensis by about 500,000 years ago, with possible late survival in Java as late as 140,000 years ago.
* The discovery of the morphologically divergent Dmanisi skull 5 in 2013 has reinforced the trend of subsuming fossils formerly given separate species names under H. erectus considered as a wide-ranging, polymorphous species. Thus, H. ergaster is now well within the accepted morphological range of H. erectus, and it has been suggested that even H. rudolfensis and H. habilis (alternatively suggested as late forms of Australopithecus rather than early Homo)
* should be considered early varieties of H. erectus.

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