Homo Erectus was one of the many ancestors in our evolutionary chain. They are believed to have come out of Africa and then spread their way out as far as China and Java.
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In Asia, Homo erectus lived in the bamboo forests and may have made tools such as staffs and spears from this strong
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Paleontology question: Where did Homo erectus live? they lived in Africa,Europe,Java,Indonesia,Vietnam,and China.
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Homo erectus lived about 1.6 million to 200,000 years ago. They evolved in Africa, and then groups spread to Europe, East Asia (including Peking man or "Sinanthropus"), and South-east Asia (Java man, or "Pithecanthropus"...
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Homo erectus (from the Latin ērı̆gĕre , "to put up, set upright") is an extinct species of hominid that originated in Africa—and spread as far as China and Java—from the end of the Pliocene epoch...
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To understand what we mean today by "Homo erectus", some history of paleoanthropological thought is needed. The first early human fossil found outside of Europe was the Trinil 2 fossil skullcap from the Solo River in Java, pictured to the right.
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They lived on the soil. They knew nothing of all the game we now have, and therefore had no need to be ever on guard against all those perils that arise from the fact that we, hunting animals as we do, live by slaying their souls. ... F-2. HOMO HABILIS AND HOMO ERECTUS:
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Homo erectus is a large brained species, with adult brains ranging from 900 to 1200 cc. This size range means that the larger brained individuals of this species exhibit a fifty-percent increase in brain size over the older Homo habilis.
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Brian Deer investigates the origins of our species ... NATURE'S PREY; Brian Deer investigates evolution ... Classic narratives on the rise of ancestors to the human species have long stressed weapons and aggression as key factors. But when Brian Deer travelled to the East African sites where investigators forged such deeply...
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A newly discovered species of Hobbit-sized hominids, named Homo floresiensis, lived in the Indonesian island of Flores from about 95,000 years ago to about 13,000 years ago. Three feet tall, they were an offshoot of Homo erectus and developed into a dwarf form on the isolated island.
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