Sentences with phrase «erectus walked»

This was surprising, as H. erectus walked upright, was about the same size as us and made simple tools — all traits associated with being human, says Dean.

«Homo erectus walked as we do: 1.5 - million - year - old footprints provide window to the life of Homo erectus.»

Not exact matches

Then the scientists noticed the ridge in a pitted, yellowed skull of our 2 - million - year - old relative Homo erectus — but not in older hominids known as australopithecines, who walked the earth as far back as 4.4 million years ago.

Based on experimentally derived estimates of body mass from the Ileret hominin tracks, the researchers have also inferred the sexes of the multiple individuals who walked across footprint surfaces and, for the two most expansive excavated surfaces, developed hypotheses regarding the structure of these H. erectus groups.

Using novel analytical techniques, they have demonstrated that these H. erectus footprints preserve evidence of a modern human style of walking and a group structure that is consistent with human - like social behaviours.

This suggested to some that they had a more primitive gait and that the transition to fully modern walking didn't happen until our direct ancestor, Homo erectus, emerged about 1.9 million years ago.

Pithecanthropus Pithecanthropus Erectus Pithecanthropus Mojokertensis Pithecanthropus Soloensis Meganthropus Palaeojavanicus Homo Hobbit Pithecanthropus In 1890 Eugene Dubois found Pithecanthropus fossil species in the village Sandpipers (Structural) East Java near Solo river basin, by giving the name Pithecanthropus erectus meaning upright walking ape - man.