Homo erectus

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• The owner of a 40,000-year-old pinky bone may have belonged to an archaic human species known only from fossils such as Homo heidelbergensis, shown as a bust above, or Homo erectus, or a completely unknown pre-human species. Fossil DNA analysis may have revealed new human species
• Mr. McAllister inadvertently answers the question at book's end by envisioning a male Homo erectus from a million years ago, plucked off the African plain and plunked down at a Nascar event. Testosterone Put to the Test
• Homo erectus, and humans with a disorder called microcephaly, which has been suggested as an explanation for the Hobbit's small stature. Livescience.com
• Falk's team looked not only at five Homo erectus skulls, but skulls of earlier hominids from Africa, such as Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus aethiopicus.
• While modern people weren't on the scene at that time, early humans called Homo erectus were living in the region.
• They created HuMans, Homo Sapiens, through genetic manipulation with themselves and ape man Homo Erectus.
• To put that into perspective, if we were to go back 45,000 human generations, that would be about a million years, back to the time of Homo erectus, which is not very long ago. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
• I have always enjoyed pointing out that a Catholic priest (Lemaitre) conceived of the Big Bang, and a Jesuit (Teilhard de Chardin) discovered Homo erectus (then called Sinanthropus, Peking man). "Eppur, si muove..."
• Homo erectus was then known only from fossils discovered in Java in the 1890s—although the remains a jawbone, skullcap, thighbone, and two teeth were initially classified as Pithecanthropus erectus, or the “erect ape man.” Ancestral Passions
• But other anatomical features resembled those of a more recent archaic human called Homo erectus.