Homo erectus (/ˌhoʊmoʊ əˈrɛktəs/; meaning "upright man") is an extinct species of archaic human from the Pleistocene, with its earliest occurrence about...
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including Homo erectus erectus, Homo erectus yuanmouensis, Homo erectus lantianensis, Homo erectus nankinensis, Homo erectus pekinensis, Homo erectus palaeojavanicus...
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erectus is an ongoing and unresolved dispute within palaeoanthropology. Proponents of synonymisation typically designate H. ergaster as "African Homo...
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Human taxonomy (redirect from Homo erectus subspecies)
including Homo erectus erectus, Homo erectus yuanmouensis, Homo erectus lantianensis, Homo erectus nankinensis, Homo erectus pekinensis, Homo erectus palaeojavanicus...
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Homo Erectus (released on DVD in the United States as National Lampoon's The Stoned Age) is a 2007 American comedy film written and directed by Adam Rifkin...
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Homo heidelbergensis (also H. erectus heidelbergensis, H. sapiens heidelbergensis) is an extinct species or subspecies of archaic human which existed...
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projects strongly. Like Homo erectus, the braincase is low and archaic in appearance. The vault bones are also thick like Homo erectus specimens. Due to the...
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Java Man (redirect from Homo erectus erectus)
Java Man (Homo erectus erectus, formerly also Anthropopithecus erectus, Pithecanthropus erectus) is an early human fossil discovered in 1891 and 1892...
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Meganthropus (redirect from Homo erectus meganthropus)
most paleoanthropologists considered them related to Homo erectus in some way. However, the names Homo palaeojavanicus and even Australopithecus palaeojavanicus...
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habilis was proposed to have been a human ancestor, directly evolving into Homo erectus which directly led to modern humans. This viewpoint is now debated. Several...
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Early human migrations (section Homo erectus)
that Homo erectus may have built rafts and sailed oceans, a theory that has raised some controversy. One million years after its dispersal, H. erectus was...
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Human (redirect from HomoSapiens)
fire and other forms of heat to prepare and cook food since the time of Homo erectus. Humans can survive for up to eight weeks without food and several days...
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Dmanisi hominins (redirect from Homo erectus georgicus)
classified them as Homo (erectus?) ergaster (an otherwise African taxon), or potentially an early offshoot of later Asian H. erectus. The discovery of...
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Neanderthal (redirect from Homo sapiens neanderthalensis)
is uncertain, but it gave rise to Homo antecessor, found in Spain. Homo heidelbergensis originated from Homo erectus in an unknown location and dispersed...
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Paleolithic (section Homo erectus)
occupied by Poland. Both Homo erectus and Homo neanderthalensis became extinct by the start of the Upper Paleolithic. Descended from Homo sapiens, the anatomically...
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Early modern human (redirect from Anatomically modern Homo sapiens)
sapiens or H. erectus). The divergence of the lineage leading to H. sapiens out of ancestral H. erectus (or an intermediate species such as Homo antecessor)...
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Human evolution (redirect from Evolution of Homo sapiens)
extinct by 140,000 years ago, Homo erectus soloensis, found in Java, is considered the latest known survival of H. erectus. Formerly dated to as late as...
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erectus dispersed across Eurasia some behaviors in some areas appear to have changed. The trajectory of diets between Homo habilis and Homo erectus can...
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of H. erectus, especially Asian erectus subspecies Homo Erectus (film), 2007 comedy film Homo erectus (album), 1998 rock/pop album Homo Erectus, a Japanese...
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previously known. Their ancestors, who may have been Asian H. erectus or some other even earlier Homo, would have needed to have made a sea crossing of several...
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Solo Man (redirect from Homo erectus soloensis)
Solo Man (Homo erectus soloensis) is a subspecies of H. erectus that lived along the Solo River in Java, Indonesia, about 117,000 to 108,000 years ago...
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Origin of language (section Homo erectus)
with Homo erectus (1.8 million years ago) or with Homo heidelbergensis (0.6 million years ago) and the development of language proper with Homo sapiens...
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ergaster† (African Homo erectus) Homo erectus† Homo erectus bilzingslebenensis † Java Man, Homo erectus erectus † Lantian Man, Homo erectus lantianensis †...
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Evolution of human intelligence (section Homo)
for a chimpanzee) about a third of that of Homo erectus. It is proposed that they evolved from H. erectus as a case of insular dwarfism. With their three-times-smaller...
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van Koenigswald. These skull and fossil materials are Homo erectus, named Pithecanthropus erectus by Dubois and Meganthropus palaeojavanicus by van Koenigswald...
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Early expansions of hominins out of Africa (redirect from Dispersal of Homo erectus)
Ma for the oldest Shangchen artefacts. Homo erectus emerges just after 2 million years ago. Early H. erectus would have lived face to face with H. habilis...
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Peking Man (redirect from Homo erectus pekinensis)
Peking Man (Homo erectus pekinensis) is a subspecies of H. erectus which inhabited the Zhoukoudian cave site in modern northern China during the Chibanian...
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Dmanisi (section Homo erectus georgicus)
Early human (or hominin) fossils, originally named Homo georgicus and now considered Homo erectus georgicus, were found at Dmanisi between 1991 and 2005...
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Australopithecine (section Relation to Homo)
H. erectus. Liu et al. (2010) also dispute the Jianshi–australopithecine link and argue the Jianshi molars fall within the range of Homo erectus: No...
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contemporaneous Homo. It is unclear whether they branched off at around the time of H. habilis, H. rudolfensis, and A. sediba, are a sister taxon to H. erectus and...
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