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Homo erectus

Sinanthropus
pekinensis zhoukoudian

(fka Chou-kou-tien)

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Homo erectus.

Homo erectus
BBC
General Information Pithecanthropus erectus (Java)
African Homo erectus European Homo erectus
Homo "Early Homo"
Homo erectus Homo sapiens

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Information on Sinanthropus pekinensis (China)


Homo erectus

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Subfamily

Genus

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Variety 

Example

Alternative Name

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Homo

erectus

 erectus

Java

Pithe-
canthropus

 pekinensis

Beijing

Sin-
anthropus

 

Nariokotome

African

 
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  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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