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Homo erectus erectus
Pithecanthropus erectus

Cf., "The Hobbit"
(Homo floresiensis)

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

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Homo erectus

Primates -- Contemporary | Primates -- Prehistoric | Hominids

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Subfamily

Genus

Species

Variety 

Example

Alternative Name

H
o
m
i
n
i
n
e
s

Homo

erectus

 erectus

Java

Pithe-
canthropus

 pekinensis

Beijing

Sin-
anthropus

 

Nariokotome

African

 
Dmanisi, Ceprano
   

"Hobbit" ?

  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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Homo sapiens

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

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Genus

Species

Variety 

Alternative Name

Example

Homo

sapiens

heidelberg-
ensis

 

"Pre-Modern"
("Archaic")

Heidelberg, Steinheim, Swanscombe, Kabwe . . .

Neanderthal-
ensis
?
(Denisovans?)

Neandertal

"Hobbit"


sapiens
(prehistoric)

Prehistoric
"Early Moderns"

Cro-Magnon, Border Cave, Qafzeh, etc.

sapiens
(contemporary)

Contemporary
"Moderns"

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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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