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    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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  • 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 (/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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    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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    erectus is an ongoing and unresolved dispute within palaeoanthropology. Proponents of synonymisation typically designate H. ergaster as "African Homo...
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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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    paleoanthropologist, best known for his naming of Sinanthropus pekinensis (now Homo erectus pekinensis). He was Chairman of the Geological Survey of China and...
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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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    appearance of H. erectus, and were possibly even the first hominins to do so. However, H. floresiensis has several dental similarities to H. erectus, which supports...
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    Sinanthropus (category Early species of Homo)
    Man — Sinanthropus pekinensis (currently Homo erectus pekinensis) Lantian Man — Sinanthropus lantianensis (currently Homo erectus lantianensis) Nanjing...
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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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    Homo erectus nankinensis † Peking Man, Homo erectus pekinensis † Solo Man, Homo erectus soloensis † (possible separate species) Tautavel Man, Homo erectus...
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    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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    from Britain. Further, the discovery of the humanlike Peking Man (Homo erectus pekinensis) in China also seemed to place the origins of humankind outside...
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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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    archaeological discoveries, including one of the first specimens of Homo erectus (Homo erectus pekinensis), dubbed Peking Man, and a fine assemblage of bones of the...
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    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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    Denisovan (redirect from Homo Denisovan)
    Denisovans and an unknown archaic human population, possibly a relict H. erectus or H. erectus-like population about 53,000 years ago. Alternatively, divergent...
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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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    traditional Chinese: 藍田人; pinyin: Lántián rén), Homo erectus lantianensis) is a subspecies of Homo erectus known from an almost complete mandible from Chenchiawo...
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    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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    remains represent a different Homo species, which coexisted with H. habilis and H. ergaster/H. erectus. Coexisting Homo species conflicted with the predominant...
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    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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    including Peking Man (Homo erectus pekinensis) and modern humans (Homo sapiens). Starting about 170,000 years ago, some Homo sapiens lived in some cave...
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    contemporaneous Tighennif remains from Algeria (usually classified as Homo ergaster [=? Homo erectus], originally "Atlantanthropus mauritanicus") represent the same...
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  • Thumbnail for Nanjing Man
    Nanjing Man is a specimen of Homo erectus (possibly Homo pekinensis) found in China. Large fragments of one male and one female skull and a molar tooth...
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  • Resistance. Peking Man Confirmed 1941–1945 Replica Fossil remains of Homo erectus pekinensis; dated ~500,000 years old. Lost during World War II in China in...
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  • Mothra as Desghidorah 1997 - Rebirth of Mothra II as Dagahra 1997 - Homo erectus pekinensis Who are you? as Mammoth 2001 - Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah:...
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    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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