ANTH 1131 Lecture Notes - Taurodontism, Skull, Genetic Drift
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Appears in africa approximately 2 million years ago. Significantly larger in stature and brain size than any of the other hominins. Their body is very similar to ours, it is their face that is slightly different. First species we know about that leaves africa migrates around europe and into india, south/south-east asia don"t really move northwards. H. erectus (inclusive) appears in africa c. 2 million years ago. H. erectus-type fossils (fossils that kind of resemble h. erectus) continue: In africa until about 200,000 years ago. In asia perhaps as recently as 50-100,000 years ago. Today, most european fossils once called homo erectus are given their own species name (mostly h. heidelbergensis) There is a debate mainly over degree of similarity between african and asian h. erectus fossils. Thought that all the fossils can be lumped into a single, widespread species with some notable regional variability. Or that they should be split into two species african and asian.
