Homo erectus

Homo erectus | The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program

Overview: Early African Homo erectus fossils (sometimes called Homo ergaster) are the oldest known early humans to have possessed modern human- ...

Homo erectus - Wikipedia

H. erectus was the first human ancestor to spread throughout Eurasia, with a continental range extending from the Iberian Peninsula to Java.

Homo erectus, our ancient ancestor | Natural History Museum

By far the longest-surviving human species, Homo erectus was the first hominin to evolve a truly human-like body shape. It was the first of our relatives ...

Homo erectus - A Bigger, Smarter, Faster Hominin Lineage - Nature

About two million years ago, a new set of fossils began to appear in the human fossil record. Designated as Homo erectus, they show evidence of increases in ...

Homo erectus | Definition, Characteristics, Skull, Diet, Tools, & Facts

Homo erectus, extinct species of the human genus (Homo), maybe an ancestor of modern humans (H. sapiens). H. erectus, apparently the first ...

Homo erectus - The Australian Museum

After years of searching Indonesia for 'the missing link', Dutchman Eugene Dubois finally uncovered part of a skull in 1891 (known as 'Java Man'). He believed ...

Last appearance of Homo erectus at Ngandong, Java ... - Nature

Homo erectus is the founding early hominin species of Island Southeast Asia, and reached Java (Indonesia) more than 1.5 million years ago1,2 ...

Homo Erectus: Facts About the 'Upright Man' | Live Science

erectus had a similar range of body sizes to modern humans, and it is the first human ancestor to have similar limb and torso proportions to ...

What do we know about the ancestry of Homo erectus? - John Hawks

Here's the quote: “No gradual series of changes in earlier australopithecine populations clearly leads to the new species [Homo sapiens].

Homo Erectus - The First Humans - YouTube

Homo Erectus was perhaps the most formative step in our evolution. I would argue they were the first humans. Huge thanks to my patreons!

A snapshot of our mysterious ancestor Homo erectus

Homo erectus was much smarter than previous hominins, being the first species to use fire and may have been the first to live in hunter-gather ...

Natural history of Homo erectus - Antón - 2003 - Wiley Online Library

Here I argue that H. erectus is a hominin, notable for its increased body size, that originates in the latest Pliocene/earliest Pleistocene of Africa.

Homo erectus: Ancient humans survived longer than we thought - BBC

Homo erectus: Ancient humans survived longer than we thought ... An ancient relative of modern humans survived into comparatively recent times in ...

Morphological variation in Homo erectus and the origins of ...

The temporal and regional anatomical variation in H. erectus suggests that a high level of developmental plasticity, a key factor in the ability ...

The biogeography of Homo erectus dispersal out of Africa

erectus dispersal, from its East African origin to the colonization of Eurasia, taking into account both the presence of other large mammals and the physical ...

The Story of Homo erectus at 'Ubeidiya in Israel - Sapiens.org

'Ubeidiya is one of the earliest-known sites settled by H. erectus (sometimes called Homo ergaster) en route out of Africa.

First Homo erectus from Turkey and implications for migrations into ...

We report here the remarkable circumstances surrounding the discovery of the first fossil hominin calvaria from Turkey.

Homo erectus - Fossils, Asia, Africa | Britannica

Homo erectus - Fossils, Asia, Africa: The first fossils attributed to Homo erectus were discovered by a Dutch army surgeon, Eugène Dubois, ...

Human ancestor Homo erectus had the stocky chest of a Neanderthal

Scientists found that Homo erectus had a large but short ribcage like Neanderthals, rather than the longer, flatter chest of modern humans. H.

Homo erectus Modern Man: Evolution or Human Variability?

An interesting change is taking place in creationist circles in respect of the status of the taxon Homo erectus and its relationship to Homo sapiens sapiens.