Sentences with phrase «erectus evolved»

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

Then, around 1.8 million years ago, Homo erectus evolved.

For example, Aiello and her colleagues proposed that when our brains began to expand dramatically about 1.6 million years ago, our direct ancestor Homo erectus evolved a smaller gut that sucked up less energy (Science, 15 June 2007, p. 1560).

Until now, anthropologists have thought that H. erectus evolved between 1.78 million and 1.65 million years ago — after the Dmanisi tools would have been made.

The new skull tells us that H. erectus evolved in a mosaic fashion, with some aspects of the skull changing before others, says Spoor.

Not exact matches

Ho.mo sapiens evolved from ho.mo erectus about 250,000 years ago.

One million years ago, this valley was populated by hand - axe - making Homo erectus, which evolved into H. rhodesiensis and then into the nearly anatomically modern H. sapiens idaltu.

Archaeologists have long thought that Homo erectus, humanity's first ancestor to spread around the world, evolved in Africa before dispersing throughout Europe and Asia.

Ferring and his colleagues propose that some ancestors of H. erectus might have traveled to Asia and possibly Europe, done a bit of evolving, then wandered back to Africa.

The new glimpse of the footpaths of animals and humans complement earlier studies that reveal the anatomy and behavior of H. erectus, suggesting that as it evolved modern body proportions, it also increased its home range and began competing with carnivores for carcasses on the savanna, says Harris.

H. erectus's feet had clearly evolved a modern shape, with the big toe parallel to the other toes and a pronounced arch, says paleoanthroologist Brian Richmond of George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Like Rightmire, he thinks the fossils represent an early, primitive form of H. erectus, which had evolved from a H. habilis — like ancestor and still bore some primitive features shared with H. habilis.

He says that LB1 evolved from an isolated Homo erectus group who developed smaller bodies to cope with the island's limited resources.

If that's true, then H. erectus may have evolved in Eurasia, an idea rarely entertained.

«The origins of the genus Homo are murky, but by H. erectus, bigger brains and bodies had evolved that, along with larger foraging ranges, would have increased the daily energetic requirements of hominins.

Homo floresiensis fossils revealed the tiny hominid didn't evolve from Homo erectus, as previously believed.

In this standard view of human evolution, H. erectus first evolved there more than 2 million years ago (see «Two routes for human evolution»).

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.

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.