Homo erectus erectus
Pithecanthropus erectus

Cf., "The Hobbit"
(Homo floresiensis)

General Information	*Sinanthropus pekinensis* (China)
African Homo erectus	European Homo erectus
*Homo*	*"Early Homo"*
*Homo erectus*	*Homo sapiens*

Homo erectus (Sangiran 2) -- CSUS

Subfamily	Genus	Species	Variety	Example	Alternative Name
*Homo erectus* Early Human Phylogeny -- National Museum of Natural History Times to Remember Primates -- Contemporary \| Primates -- Prehistoric \| Hominids top of page
H o m i n i n e s	*Homo*	*erectus*	*erectus*	Java	Pithe- canthropus
			*pekinensis*	Beijing	Sin- anthropus
				Nariokotome	African
				Dmanisi, Ceprano	European
					"Hobbit" ?
Adapted from Intoduction to Physical Anthropology, 8th ed, Jurmain, Nelson, Kilgore, and Trevathan (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2000, pp. 285 - 290).

Homo sapiens

Early Human Phylogeny -- National Museum of Natural History

Times to Remember

| Primates -- Contemporary | Primates -- Prehistoric | Hominids | Australopithecus |
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Genus

Species

Variety

Alternative Name

Example

Homo

sapiens

heidelberg-
ensis

"Archaic"
Heidelberg, Steinheim, Swanscombe, Kabwe, etc.

Neanderthal-
ensis ?
Neandertal

Homo floresiensis ?

"Hobbit"

sapiens
(prehistoric)

Prehistoric
"Early Moderns"

Cro-Magnon, Border Cave, Qafzeh, etc.

sapiens
(contemporary)

Contemporary
"Moderns"

UMD Students

Special Case: Piltdown

Adapted from Intoduction to Physical Anthropology, 8th ed, Jurmain, Nelson, Kilgore, and Trevathan
(Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2000, pp. 285 - 290).

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