ARCH 131 Lecture Notes - Homo Erectus, Homo Ergaster, Homo Heidelbergensis
27 May 2014
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Home erectus, or some version of this species, first appears in africa around 2 million years ago, or perhaps a little earlier than this. It was significantly larger in both stature and brain size than all previous hominins and is the first hominin to really look like us. It also appears to have been the first hominin group to leave africa and spread into the rest of the old world: europe and asia. And although we have a better sample of homo erectus fossils than any other early hominin species, the category, homo erectus, has still been a problematic designation for almost a century. There are a number of regionally distinct, yet similar fossil groups (african, asian, and. European) that have all been, at one point or another, either directly placed in the homo erectus category or at least associated with it.
