Sentences with phrase «erectus first»

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

It may well happen that Spurs finish the season above us as our team move into the next era of supremacy, but they will never be top dogs in London, they are third as they have been since homo erectus first crawled out of the swamplands of N17.

Not exact matches

The shape of the brain case was the first to change: the new skull has a braincase shaped like a typical H. erectus despite its small size.

Their best guess was that H. floresiensis was a descendant of H. erectus — the first species known to have colonized outside of Africa.

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.

The newly developed method, which saves time and money, will first be used to study obsidian tools made by early humans, including Neanderthals and Homo erectus, tens of thousands of years ago.

The team says the date is too late for Asian H. erectus, which first migrated out of Africa about 1.8 million years ago.

«I think for the first time, by virtue of the Dmanisi hominins, we have a solid hypothesis for the origin of H. erectus,» says Rick Potts, a paleoanthropologist at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.

The first members of our genus that looked like us, H. erectus stood about as tall as modern humans, with brains that weighed around 900 grams.

Until the discovery of the first jawbone at Dmanisi 25 years ago, researchers thought that the first hominins to leave Africa were classic H. erectus (also known as H. ergaster in Africa).

Produced using cutting - edge methodology and the largest sample of individual early hominin fossils available, analysis of their results shows that early hominins were generally smaller than previously thought and that the increase in body size occurred not between australopiths and the origins of Homo but later with H. erectus (the first species widely found outside of Africa).

But «the jury is still out» on whether cooking was responsible for the first dramatic burst of brain growth in our lineage, in H. erectus, Martin says, or whether our ancestors began cooking over a fire later, when the brain went through a second major growth spurt about 600,000 years ago.

First discovered on the island of Java in 1891, and later unearthed in China, Kenya, Ethiopia, and the Republic of Georgia, Homo erectus («upright man») was the first hominid to migrate out of AfFirst discovered on the island of Java in 1891, and later unearthed in China, Kenya, Ethiopia, and the Republic of Georgia, Homo erectus («upright man») was the first hominid to migrate out of Affirst hominid to migrate out of Africa.

The first fossil skulls of Homo erectus, 1.8 million years ago, had brains averaging a bit larger than 600 ml.

1891 The first H. erectus fossils are found in Java.

The results, reported May 8 in the journal Nature Human Behavior, place the appearance of human - like cognition at the emergence of Homo erectus, an early apelike species of human first found in Africa whose evolution predates Neanderthals by nearly 600,000 years.

In the most widely accepted model of human evolution today, the first emergence of hominins out of Africa involved Homo erectus, and happened some time after 2m years ago.

According to one prevailing but contentious theory, the hobbits descended from the larger Homo erectus, the first hominid to have modern human proportions, whose remains can be found on the nearby Indonesian island of Java.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.