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Homo erectus |
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Homo erectus) Skull of Homo erectus from Sangiran Java (Anthropological Institute, Turin, Italy). The earliest fossils of Homo erectus, or a more primitive ancestral form Homo ergaster, date back to 1.8-1.9 million years ago, in Kenya. Homo erectus has been identified as having been present in tropical areas of the Old World soon after this, and later still in temperate areas of Asia and Europe. Species of hominid (of the human family) that walked upright and lived more than 1.5 million years ago. Fossil remains have been found in Java, China, Africa, and Europe. See human species, origins of. |
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| His use of the word 'war' to cover all species of the genus 'organized violence' is worse than, but akin to, our use of the word 'man' to cover the species homo habilis, homo erectus, homo sapiens neanderthalis, and homo sapiens sapiens, which are the four known members of the genus homo. They belonged to a human ancestor known as Homo erectus. Excavations in 2005 at Dmanisi, Georgia, yielded five vertebrae from a Homo erectus individual, says anthropologist Marc R. |
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