Sentences with phrase «erectus specimens»

Mike Morwood: There are no comparable early hominin discoveries in southeast Asia since Eugene DuBois» finding of the type H. erectus specimens at Trinil, East Java, in the 1890s.

Here is one of Scott's most amazing claims, namely that some H. erectus specimens were actually a subspecies of modern humans, called Homo sapiens giganticus by Scott, which grew up to 12 feet tall.

Far from dismissing erectus forms as being only large extinct apes or frauds, the pendulum is now swinging to the view that most, if not all erectus specimens are indeed full members of the human race.

There are no unambiguous archaic sapiens in Asia but two recently - discovered skulls from China seem to have the flattened erectus - type foreheads, yet their ECV's are apparently close to the modern human average and their faces are flatter than the usual erectus specimens.

Curiously, as a debating tactic to discredit other hominid fossils, creationists often accept 1470 as human, even though many of them reject larger - brained erectus specimens as apes.

Earlier Homo erectus specimens were known from east and South - East Asia.

The prominent brow and temporal bone resemble other Homo erectus specimens found elsewhere in Africa, and in Europe, Indonesia and China.

The specimen helps fill a gap in the fossil record as very few Homo erectus specimens of this age have been found in Africa so far.

As most of the adult cranial capacity is reached by age 10 or 11, it is likely that the adult ECV of WT 15000 would be no more than about 1000 - 1050cc, which is still well within the modern human range of about 800 - 2000cc.19 On the same page Jue points out that a brain capacity of 1400cc applies to the Vertesszöllos erectus specimen which is dated at around 350kya (kiloyears ago = thousands of years).

If the dating is correct, this erectus specimen must have coexisted with modern (quasi-archaic) sapiens; the age corresponds with that of Steinheim and Swanscombe.

Not exact matches

Spoor agrees that the specimens from Dmanisi are all H. erectus and that the species was variable, but he does not believe that all the African fossils belong to H. erectus.

An entire skull belonging to an extinct hominin that lived 1.8 million years ago has been found in Georgia — the earliest completely preserved specimen ever found and confirmation that the species it belonged to, Homo erectus was far more variable in appearance than originally thought.

Indeed, H. erectus now includes the 1 - million - year - old type specimen from Trinil on the island of Java as well as fossils from South Africa, East Africa, Georgia, Europe, and China that span roughly 300,000 to 1.9 million years.

This specimen has been attributed as a male ergaster by some, though most place it in H. erectus, and that is where it will be discussed in detail.

One problem is that Lubenow counts as erectus many skulls belonging to fairly recent sapiens, mostly of Australian aboriginal specimens.

Since then, other specimens have been attributed by various authors to ergaster, with most researchers placing the same fossils in erectus.

As a general rule of thumb, one can consider most attributed ergaster specimens to be early erectus geographically confined to Africa (however, this is not a hard and fast rule).

Peter Andrews discusses the Middle Pleistocene specimens from Java and China, and earlier Pleistocene forms ER 3733 and 3883 from Africa, and the later European and African forms such as Arago, Heidelberg and Broken Hill (Rhodesian Man).79 He claims the African specimens may represent different species or a separate lineage from Asian forms giving rise to separate populations of H. sapiens in the later Pleistocene - that is, Solo Man from Java may be directly ancestral to the controversial Kow Swamp and Cossack erectus / sapiens populations in Australia about 6,000 - 13,000 years ago.

Also, more recent analyses by other researchers seem to indicate that even if ergaster specimens are considered as a different taxon than erectus, the erectus material is still closer to modern humans cladistically.

All fossil specimens of Homo erectus and archaic Homo sapiens (including Neanderthals),... should be reclassified into a single species, Homo sapiens, that is, subdivided only into races.»

«This study is purely based on differences in morphological characters between fossil specimens, with each character weighted equally, and with disregard of any functional aspects of every character,» says Dr. Gerrit van den Bergh of the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, one of the authors of the 2016 study published in Nature that supports the idea that H. floresiensis descended from H. erectus and was made small by insular dwarfism.