Homo erectus Homo erectus (upright man) is an extinct species of hominin that lived throughout most of the Pleistocene‚ with the earliest first fossil evidence dating to around 1.8 million years ago and the most recent to around 143‚000 years ago. The species originated in Africa and spread as far as England‚ Georgia‚ India‚ Sri Lanka‚ China and Java. The discussion about the size and the outer appearance‚ history of discovery and fossils‚ and the humanity‚ dispersal and the daily life of Homo
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Andrew Godawa Outline: Homo erectus 1. Introduction/General Information a. A Dutch anatomist named Eugene Dubois is responsible for the discovery of Homo erectus. b. Fossils and remains were found in 1891 on the island of Java. c. Homo erectus is an extinct hominid that lived between 1.6 million and 250‚000 years ago. d. Homo erectus is thought to have evolved in Africa from another human ancestor known as Homo habilis--which happens to be the first member
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physical characteristics found in Homo erectus show the progression of characteristics that has so far culminated at modern humans. These fossils showed an increase in cranial capacity to about 900 cm3‚ quite advanced when compared to the 500 - 800 cm3 shown in slightly earlier Homo. Homo erectus also showed a progression toward a larger body size‚ with an increase in height and weight. More specifically‚ the cranium of Homo erectus was distinctive from that of its ancestors due to projected brow
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Homo erectus (literally "upright man") is an extinct hominin that lived between 1.8 million and 50‚000 years ago. The first fossil found of this species (the type specimen) was a skullcap discovered in 1891 by Eugène Dubois. However‚ the species was not named until 1894‚ after a femur (thigh bone) was discovered not far from the skullcap. The femur was nearly identical to that of a modern human‚ prompting Dubois to name a new species: Pithecanthropus erectus (literally "upright apeman"). Both fossils
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believe Homo floresiensis to be – a “one off” freak version of Homo erectus‚ a separate and very unique species‚ or something else . . . Homo floresiensis was a hominoid discovered in a cave called Liang Bua on an Indonesia island. She was examined to be from 17‚000 years ago and nicknamed “the Hobbit” because she was only around a meter tall even though she was an adult. What was more amazing about this hominoid was the small cranial capacity of 417 cc‚ much smaller than a typical early Homo and a
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of a new hominin species named Homo naledi that lived around 2 million years ago (Lecture‚ 4/14). In this paper I will assert the importance of the Homo naledi find in terms of its excavation process and its larger implications for hominin evolution. To support this statement I will explore the innovative technological methods Lee Berger and his team used throughout the research and excavation process and analyse the anatomical similarities and differences between Homo naledi and other hominins living
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human forms develop. Homo Heidelbergensis Homo heidelbergensis lived in Europe and Western Asia from at least 600‚000-200‚000 years ago‚ and may date in Africa‚ as far back as 1.3 million years. Rhodesian or Broken Hill man‚ was a Zambian counterpart dated from 300‚000 to 125‚000 years ago. H. heidelbergensis lived in families‚ communicated successfully with language‚ and practiced burial rituals with red ocher. Their stone tools resembled the Achulean toolkit of Homo erectus‚ with large bifacial
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Christopher Rhodes Dr. Frost Anthropology 3010 May 7‚ 2013 Homo Floresiensis; Pathological modern human or evolutionary offshoot? Upon initial discovery of the skeletons at Liang Bau cave on the island of Flores in Indonesia in 2003‚ these enigmatic skeletons were appropriately dubbed ‚”Hobbits” by Australian and Indonesian researchers because of their small stature and curious bone structure. The location of the skeletons themselves is interesting because of the remoteness of the island from
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Homo Habilis Hominids with a brain absolutely and relatively larger than that of the australopithecines appeared about 2.3 million years ago. These hominids are classified in our own genus: Homo. The earliest species to appear was the Homo Habilis. It was the first of our ancestors to show a significant increase in brain size and also the first to be found associated with stone tools. These characteristics resulted in this species’ placement into the human genus‚ Homo. Discovery The first fossil
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Life History in North African Early Homo sapiens" by Tanya M. Smith et al. discussed the increasing evidence of sophisticated material culture‚ new fossil material‚ and refined dating techniques‚ paleoanthropologists have renewed investigations of modern human origins in Africa‚ in particular the question of when early Homo sapiens became fully modern (Smith‚ M. Tanya‚ pg. 6128). Whereas cranial and dental features demonstrate that African Middle Pleistocene Homo underwent an anatomical transition
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