Sentences with phrase «erectus probably»

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«The rate of change to dwarf an erectus in [a few hundred thousand years] would probably not make me choke on my cereal,» he says.

The team analysed over 50,000 pieces of wood and nearly 36,000 pieces of flint from what was once probably a Homo erectus settlement on the shores of an ancient lake.

The Turkana Boy Homo erectus skeleton belonged to a tall young boy who would probably have grown to around 182 cm (6 feet) in height, but his estimated adult brain size was only 910 cm3, about the size of a 3 or 4 year old modern human child.

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».

But a comprehensive study of the bones of H. floresiensis finds that not only is the species probably older than H. erectus, but it inhabits a completely different limb of our evolutionary tree.