Sentences with phrase «erectus migrated»

Translating the differences between gene sequences into a date for their divergence, the researchers conclude that the various forms of RRM2P4 last shared a common ancestor about two million years ago — around when H. erectus migrated from Africa into Asia.

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

Short and small - brained, even compared with classic Homo erectus, the Dmanisi people or their immediate ancestors emerged from Africa and migrated thousands of kilometers into Asia.

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 Africa.

Around 1.8 Ma, there is evidence of Homo georgicus and H. erectus in Eurasia and H. habilis in southern Africa suggesting they may have migrated out of East Africa before this time.

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