African Homo erectus

Steps of Forensic Facial Reconstruction of Turkana Boy
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General Information		Pithecanthropus erectus (Java)
Sinanthropus pekinensis (China)		European Homo erectus
*Homo*		*"Early Homo"*
*Homo erectus*		*Homo sapiens*

In the News . . .

Homo Erectus Walked as We Do -- ScienceDaily (12 July 2016)
The remote lake that tells the story of humanity's birth -- BBCEarth (07 December 2015)
Diversification Happened Really Early in Human Evolution -- Past Horizons (27 March 2015)
Earliest humans had diverse range of body types, just as we do today -- ScienceDaily (26 March 2015)
Best-Preserved Human Ancestor Didn't Have Bone Disorder -- LiveScience (19 March 2013)
Early Human Ancestor Surprisingly Smart -- LiveScience (12 March 2013)

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General Information on the Species

General Information on the species from the main Homo erectus page

Information on African Homo erectus

Disappearance of the Elephant Caused Rise of Modern Humans: Dietary Change Led to Modern Humans in Middle East 400,000 Years Ago -- ScienceDaily (12 December 2011)
Homo ergaster -- Lorraine Dallmeier
KNM-WT 15000, "Turkana Boy" -- Talk.Origins Archive, Jim Foley
"Homo erectus (East Turkana: Homo ergaster)" -- American Museum of Natural History
Skull KNM-ER 3733 -- Talk.Origins Archive, Jim Foley
Animation
- Animation Homo erectus model (Nariokotome) -- Hominid Palaeontology Research Group

Turkana Boy, BBC, Turkana boy was bigger brained than those before him (Credit: Sabeena Jane Blackbird/Alamy)

"Turkana Boy, BBC, Turkana boy was bigger brained than those before him" (BBC; Credit: Sabeena Jane Blackbird/Alamy)

Homo erectus

Early Human Phylogeny -- National Museum of Natural History

Times to Remember

Primates -- Contemporary | Primates -- Prehistoric | Hominids
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Subfamily

Genus

Species

Variety

Example

Alternative Name

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Homo

erectus

erectus

Java

Pithe-
canthropus

pekinensis

Beijing

Sin-
anthropus

Nariokotome

African

Dmanisi, Ceprano

European

"Hobbit" ?

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

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