Sentences with phrase «erectus who»

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The postmodern aesthete, that homo erectus appetitus, this featherless biped possessed of desires and wants, who makes contracts of convenience and who is vacant of love but vibrant with lust — this is very much the man of the hour.

However, the history of the more modern Homo erectus, big - brained and fully upright, has been told mainly through skull fossils, says Sileshi Semaw, a palaeoanthroplogist at the Stone Age Institute in Gosport, Indiana, who led the team.

The occupants who left these ashes at Wonderwerk lived nearly a million years after the emergence of H. erectus.

Intermixing does not surprise paleoanthropologists who have long argued on the basis of fossils that archaic humans, such as the Neandertals in Eurasia and Homo erectus in East Asia, mated with early moderns and can be counted among our ancestors — the so - called multiregional evolution theory of modern human origins.

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.

With Homo erectus, scientists see a shift to a taller and brainier hominin who spread across Africa, into Asia, and throughout parts of Europe.

Morwood, who passed away on July 23 from cancer, made important contributions in research areas ranging from the rock art of Australia's Kimberly region to the seafaring capabilities of Homo erectus.

«There is still no ancestor - descendant sequence from Flores that supports body size reduction from a larger bodied H. erectus ancestor,» says Peter Brown at the University of New England in Armidale, Australia, who led the original hobbit excavations at Liang Bua.

He says that LB1 evolved from an isolated Homo erectus group who developed smaller bodies to cope with the island's limited resources.

What's more, we need extra time for our large brains to grow — they are half as big again as those of the earliest humans, Homo erectus, who appeared some 2 million years ago.

Those who see it as a valid taxon tend to see it as more closely resembling modern H. sapiens than does H. erectus.

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.