ANT 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Hyoid Bone, Pleistocene, Homo Antecessor
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Homo erectus first early human form found outside africa, by 1. 2 m. y. a. In europe this early form is known as homo antecessor which evolved into. Homo heidelbergensis around 600,000 years ago, by 200,000 years ago, Conventional wisdom today generally regards neanderthals as a rather specialized form that evolved from homo erectus in the colder, more isolated areas of europe. Earliest fully modern humans found in east and south africa, earliest known example of homo sapiens has been found at kibish in southwestern ethiopia, dating. Beginning around 50,000 years ago, fully modern humans replaced neanderthals in. Mechanisms for this replacement debated among archaeologists and physical southwestern asia and then the rest of asia and in europe anthropologists. Or did they evolve in many places through the flow of genetic material between different human populations. Know as the out of africa theory and the multiregional theory.