Sentences with phrase «separate erectus»

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Stature then separated from heft with a height increase alone of 10 cm between 1.4 - 1.6 m years ago, shortly after the emergence of Homo erectus.

In September Penn State evolutionary biologist Robert Eckhardt published a paper attacking the idea that Flores Man was a separate species of hominin, related to Homo erectus, that lived in isolation as recently as 13,000 years ago.

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.

Goodman ignores most of them, but misrepresents at least one: he calls the Rhodesian Man skull a late - surviving H. erectus, when it is, at 1280 cc., larger than any erectus skull and falls nicely into the morphological and temporal gaps which he claims separate H. erectus and H. sapiens.

On the whole though, most researchers see too little difference between ergaster and erectus to form the basis of a species of the former, separated from the latter.

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.