Sentences with phrase «homo erectus»

While some think that Homo erectus started using fire in Africa, others believe that Neanderthal man independently started using fire in Europe much later.

Dawkins speculates about how a human - chimp hybrid or the discovery of a living Homo erectus would change the way we see the world.

Homo erectus possessed fire.

Did the Homo erectus brain really increase in a stepwise fashion, he asked via our weary interpreter, or was it gradual?

39 C. C. Swisher, W. J. Rink, S. C. Anton, H. P. Schwarcz, G. H. Curtis, A. Suprijo and Widiasmoro, «Latest Homo erectus of Java: Potential contemporaneity with Homo sapiens in southeast Asia.»

Among our probable ancestors, there is Homo antecessor in the Iberian peninsula and Homo erectus in Asia and Africa — but a variety of variants are starting to appear, some of which later led to archaic Homo sapiens and Neandertals.

At 1.6 million years ago, Homo erectus is in both Africa and southeast Asia, and the smaller - brained australopithecines are also running around Africa (they die out by 1.0 million years ago, leaving Homo erectus the only hominid around).

Homo erectus was still in China but modern humans had recently arrived in Australia, showing that they had mastered water travel, to make it across from southeast Asia.

Oh homo erectus... he wrecked us... he wrecked us So why did he leave us small brain should have been a select us Oh homo erectus... he wrecked us... he wrecked us... should have left that fire alone... stuck with the raw... and left dark matter in the dark... oh pine for homo erectus when fight or flight didn't need to check a manifest and destiny was timeless

All the home grown turnip greens in the Dixie don't add up to diddly if we don't start dealing with the fact that 6 (soon to be 9) billion «Homo erectus asphaltus» can't be supported by the planet we find ourselves on.

Human beings have been around in one form or another for two and a half million years, first as homo habilis, then as homo erectus, and finally as homo sapiens.

I suggest look at the fossil sequences of human ancestors from early apes to australopithicus, homo erectus and homo habilis to homo sapiens, and notice how they morph one into the other quite smoothly, all explained by Darwinian evolution, while with respect the old testament verision is clearly a creation myth like you find in early greek and roman culture etc, an imaginative guess, and very implausible in light of our current understanding of things.

Although we didn't get the chance to visit, around 20 kilometres north of Solo is the Sangiran museum and archeological site, where Java Man (Homo erectus erectus) was discovered.

Brain Volumes Australopithecus: 350cc, 3 million years ago Homo erectus: 800cc, 1.5 million years ago Homo sapiens: 1,350 cc, Today Chimpanzee: 450cc, Today Just look at the facts: it took just over three million years for us to evolve from a creature that looked a bit like a chimpanzee into the disfigured oddballs we are today: naked, sweaty, upright, chatty, brainy weirdoes.

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Ethnic Jordanian Jordan is rich in Paleolithic remains, holding evidence of inhabitance by Homo erectus, Neanderthal and modern humans.

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«We see a dramatic shift in the tooth size of Homo erectus, which means it was likely responding to a history already of eating cooked and processed food,» study researcher Chris Organ, of Harvard University, told LiveScience.

The idea is simply that for the first 99.5 % of our existence (ancestors back as far as 2 Million years ago, homo erectus), we only ate wild plants and animals, while for the last 0.5 % of our existence (since the agricultural revolution in the last 5,000 - 10,000 years), humans now almost entirely eat farmed plants and animals.

Think of this from a logical perspective... the human digestive system evolved over a period of approximately 1.9 million years (our ancesters homo erectus & neanderthal, as well as current homo sapiens) eating a combination of raw and cooked food that was cooked with either fire or hot water, not microwaves.

Free, unlimited low - impact cardio exercise is where it's at in reducing abdominal fat, using our homo erectus muscles the way they were designed to be used and decreasing the stress of excessive cardio.

On this website (and for the remainder of this essay), the latter interpretation will be employed — i.e., «Homo erectus» will be used to describe the entire sample (African and Asian).

Whether it was due to its possession of human - like gait or not, Homo erectus is the first hominin species to have been found outside of Africa.

The fossils at Dmanisi suggest that bands of Homo erectus began migrating out of Africa at a time very close its origin.

Because of the obvious humanness of the Turkana Boy fossil, and the fact that H. erectus brain sizes overlap the extreme lower range of modern human brain sizes, creationists have nowadays almost entirely abandoned the old line (popularized by Duane Gish) that Peking Man and Java Man are apes, and now generally claim that Homo erectus fossils are a variant form of modern humans (ignoring the inconvenient fact that there are many obvious differences between Homo erectus and Homo sapiens).

Homo erectus was the first species to actively control fire; the first good evidence for controlled fire is from a Homo erectus site in Israel and is dated to roughly 780 ka.

Recent finds in Kenya, however, have increased the temporal range of Homo habilis, suggesting that the two species overlapped greatly in time and causing some scientists to question the direct linkage between Homo habilis and Homo erectus.

· Though hobbit - sized, the Liang Bua skeleton was perfectly well proportioned, and may represent the descendants of a population of Homo erectus that became isolated on Flores during the past few hundred thousand years.

Early members of our own genus, Homo erectus, and its near relative, Homo ergaster, arose in the same region about 2.5 million years ago.

Recent research, however, suggests that key fossils assigned to Homo erectus were much shorter than previously thought and argues that modern human stature may not have been present in Homo erectus.

If Clarke's expectations of further finds are borne out, Little Foot could become the most spectacular and important hominid fossil ever discovered, rivalled only by the Turkana Boy Homo erectus skeleton.

The emergence of the genus Homo (H. habilis), around 2.5 million years ago, precedes the later Homo erectus species which is most likely the first hominid to leave Africa.

They point to the mix of sapiens and erectus features in the two recently discovered Chinese fossil skulls which virtually proves that erectus and sapiens are members of the same species and the taxon Homo erectus should be laid to rest.94

The appearance of the Homo erectus sensu lato in Africa represents a fundamental turning point in hominin evolution.

All fossil specimens of Homo erectus and archaic Homo sapiens (including Neanderthals),... should be reclassified into a single species, Homo sapiens, that is, subdivided only into races.»

With the discovery of the Turkana «Boy» WT 15000 in 1984 in Kenya, it is no longer possible to hold to the position that Homo erectus was only a large - brained pongid.

So although the extreme lower range of modern human brain sizes does overlap that of Homo erectus, their skulls are very different: in H. erectus, the brain case really is smaller in relation to the rest of the skull.

There are full size dioramas of Australopithecus afarensis, Homo erectus, Neandertals, and Ice - age modern humans, along with panoramic paintings by artist Jay Matternes.

Apr 16, 1996: Version 5 of the FAQ released (151K) Expanded sections on Homo erectus, Anomalous fossils.

g.» [The reanalysis of Narmada Man] puts another nail in the coffin of Homo erectus as a viable taxon.»

As Beasley points out, 87 a lack of dietary vitamin D alone can account for some, but not necessarily all of the so - called «primitive» features of Homo erectus and Neanderthal Man.

Let us grant, for the moment and for the sake of argument, AIG's claim that the skull sizes of Homo erectus fall within the range of modern humans.

He does not dispute that Homo erectus is outside the morphological range of Homo sapiens, nor that Homo erectus evolved into Homo sapiens.

«45 If these fossils dated from say 300kya, they would undoubtedly be assigned to the taxon Homo erectus.

Nor does he believe that Homo erectus should never have been created (personal communication).

Both the skulls and skeletal bones are primitive even by Homo erectus standards, and have a number of features reminiscent of Homo habilis:

As for AIG's claims that the bones of Homo erectus and Homo sapiens are found together, this presumably relies upon the tables found in Lubenow's book which show extensive temporal overlap.

Johanson and Edey (1981) extend this example by saying that if you put Homo erectus on a subway, «people would probably take a suspicious look at him».