Homo erectus

Chen T, Yiiynn Z (1991) Paleolithic chronology and possible coexistence of Homo erectus and Homo spaienx in China. World Arch23 147-154... 

Stringer CD, McKie R (1996) African Exodus, The Origins of Modem Humanity. Jonathan Cape, London. Swisher III CC, Rink WJ, Antoin SC, Schwarcz HP, Curtis GH, Suprijo A, Widiasmoro (1996) Latest Homo erectus of Java Potential contemporaneity with Homo sapiens in Southeast Asia. Science 274 1870-1874... 

Homo erectus settles in Europe Homo sapiens begins to evolve... 

Archaic forms of Homo sapiens Homo erectus becomes extinct... 

In Greece, the cave of Petralona has yielded a skull of a variety of Homo erectus. A number of workers including the present writer have attempted to determine the age of this site [25-27]. Although the samples of travertine cannot be very accurately located with respect to the former location of the skull, the various analysts concur that these travertine layers must be greater than 350 ky in age. Liritzis has attempted to estimate the age on the basis of 234U/238U ratios 500 50 ky the assumptions in such a date are however very shaky. 

The Siwalik Group has long been famous for its abundant vertebrate fossils, among which are some early hominid ancestors. Its primates include Ramapithecus and Sivapithecus from the older beds, and younger specimens, cf. Homo erectus, from the Upper Siwalik Group, including the Pinjore Formation (72). Dates would therefore help establish the arrival time of hominins in the Indian subcontinent. 

We already knew that Homo erectus brains were significandy bigger than those of H. habilis—and now it seemed evident that their bodies were qualitatively different too .6... 

Brown F, Harris J, Leakey R et al. Early Homo erectus skeleton from west Lake Turkana, Kenya. Nature 1985 316 788. 

Swisher III Cl et al. Latest Homo erectus of Java Potential contemporaneity with Homo sapiens in Southeast Asia. Science 1996 274 1870. 

Humphrey This has evolutionary implications. It suggests that our Homo erectus ancestors, who had brains of about 750-800 cm3, may well have had the capacity for an IQ or g equivalent to that of modern humans. We should perhaps therefore be thinking of explanations of the doubling of brain size since then, other than that it was just needed to increase general cognitive abilities. 

The symbiotic partnership at first enabled a relatively small population of Early Man to prosper, to migrate rapidly from his birthplace to all the corners of the earth, to initiate a veritable explosion of culture wherever he went, and to displace all more primitive species and races of archaic man, the descendants of Homo erectus which had migrated out of Africa eons before. But as the experiment progressed and culture, technology, and thus power... 

Das Lagerfeuer war von Anfang an die Mitte des gesellschaftlichen Lebens. Schon vor einer knappen Milhon Jahre warmten Unnenschen (Homo erectus) ihre Glieder am... 

Diaspora of Homo erectus out of Africa Crude stone tools Crude blade tools Wooden spears... 

If the hominoids became aquatic waders, they seemed to return to land about three million years ago. Researchers find fossils of Homo Habilus at this time. The trail then leads confidently on once more to Homo Erectus and to the black, hairy African Neanderthal called Homo Sapien. He was characterized by an Occipital Bun or Skull Bone Ridge. 

Homo habilis There is a growing consensus amongst most paleoanthropologists that this category actually includes bits and pieces of various other types, such as Australopithecus and Homo erectus. It is therefore an invalid taxon. (A taxon is a category of organisms in the science of taxonomy.) In other words. Homo habilis never existed as such. 

Homo erectus Many remains of this type have been found around the world. Pithecanthropus (Java man) and Sinanthropus (Peking man) both fall into this category. Homo erectus specimens are smaller than the average human today, with an appropriately smaller head and cranial cavity where the brain fits. However, the brain size is within the range of modern humans. Studies of the middie ear have shown that Homo erectus was just iike us. Remains have been found in the same strata and in close proximity to ordinary Homo sapiens (modern man), suggesting that they lived together. Studies have shown that brain size fluctuations within Homo sapiens seem to have no correlation to intellectuality, so Homo erectus would not have been the dumb, brute caveman that has been implied in the past. 

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