Sentences with phrase «other erectus»

Quite a few other erectus skulls, particularly the older African ones, are 850 cm3 or smaller.

Not exact matches

The new skull tells us that H. erectus evolved in a mosaic fashion, with some aspects of the skull changing before others, says Spoor.

H. erectus never made it to Australia or the Americas, but other than that they colonised most of Earth's land mass.

According to the authors of this paper entitled «The fossil teeth of the Peking Man,» there are similarities between the teeth of Zhoukoudian and those of other Chinese archaeological sites from a similar period, but they also highlight the differences from other teeth ascribed either to Homo erectus or other species of hominins from Africa and Europe.

Differences in age and sex, says Tattersall, can not account for the wide variation in features such as jaw and brow shape not only among Dmanisi skulls, but also when compared with H. erectus fossils from other sites.

«Anthropology textbooks of the 1990s often showed maps with large arrows indicating migration of early H. erectus from its inferred core area of eastern Africa to other parts of the Old World,» explains Roebroeks.

Dmanisi team members, among others, contend that the Georgian fossils belong to a single early population of H. erectus or to a single sub-subspecies, Homo erectus ergaster georgicus.

H. erectus's feet had clearly evolved a modern shape, with the big toe parallel to the other toes and a pronounced arch, says paleoanthroologist Brian Richmond of George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Using a statistics - based technique to compare their shape and size with the skulls of many other hominins, Harvard University paleoanthropologist Philip Rightmire found that only one of the Dmanisi skulls — at 730 cubic centimeters — fits «comfortably within the confines of H. erectus.»

Another argument against the H. erectus dwarfing idea is that other parts of the hobbit skeleton look remarkably like H. habilis.

One digs into the earth while the other looks at the sky, and a stone tool once wielded by Homo erectus couldn't be more different from an exploding star at the edge of the visible universe.

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

He has analyzed genetic relationships among diverse groups of people and finds that today's humans show evidence of interbreeding among Homo erectus, Homo sapiens, and other early hominids over a wide span of time, from as far back as 1.5 million years ago until the last hypothesized global migration, around 80,000 years ago.

Hublin's team compared measurements of these finds with those for Homo erectus, Neandertals and other Homo species from between around 1.8 million and 150,000 years ago, as well as H. sapiens fossils from the past 130,000 years.

If you are a Replacementist, like me, you will restrict the concept «archaic Homo sapiens», or whatever you want to call it, to the ones that are very likely our ancestors, and the others (the Chinese and Indonesian fossils, mainly) will be a separate clade, Homo erectus.

These new findings raise the possibility that the ancestor of H. floresiensis was not Homo erectus but instead some other, more primitive, hominin whose dispersal into southeast Asia is still undocumented.»

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.

Another problem is that Lubenow arbitrarily assigns to H. sapiens many fossils which either belong to H. erectus or other species, or are not readily identifiable.

Wolpoff is supported by Alan Thorne of the Australian National University.90 According to Shipman, Wolpoff and others are now - ``... proposing nothing less than the complete abolition of Homo erectus on the grounds that the species is insufficiently distinct from Homo sapiens.

In this model, known as multiregionalism or continuity with hybridization, hominins descended from H. erectus in Asia interbred with incoming groups from Africa and other parts of Eurasia, and their progeny gave rise to the ancestors of modern east Asians, says Wu.

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

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.

I suggest look at the fossil sequences of human ancestors from early apes to australopithicus, homo erectus and homo habilis to homo sapiens, and notice how they morph one into the other quite smoothly, all explained by Darwinian evolution, while with respect the old testament verision is clearly a creation myth like you find in early greek and roman culture etc, an imaginative guess, and very implausible in light of our current understanding of things.

While some think that Homo erectus started using fire in Africa, others believe that Neanderthal man independently started using fire in Europe much later.