Sentences with phrase «erectus remains»

Spoor notes that the paucity of the fossil record means that many conjectures about Homo erectus remain unproven.

Not exact matches

Paleontologists have long noted strange grooves near the gum line on dental remains dating back to Homo erectus, «but it was assumed they couldn't be from tooth picking, because they never show up on contemporary human remains,» Hlusko says.

The new remains — six teeth, a fragment of jawbone and a tiny piece of skull — don't settle the issue, but Yousuke Kaifu at Tokyo's National Museum of Nature and Science and his colleagues think they back the shrunken H. erectus theory.

But whether the species Homo erectus, meaning «upright man», should be reclassified into several distinct species remains controversial.

The stature of S1 falls within the range of modern Homo sapiens maximum values; it also fits the available Homo erectus sensu lato estimates based on fossil remains (Ruff and Walker, 1993) and on footprints (Bennett et al., 2009)(Figure 12).

Also small statured, the remains are hypothesized by the authors to be a predecessor population, possibly Homo erectus and small statured because of the «island effect.

It belonged to an adult male of the species Homo erectus, a.k.a. «Upright Man» and is called «Skull 5» because it was the fifth set of hominid remains recovered at the archeological site, Dmanisi, located in the Caucausus of the Republic of Georgia.

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.

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