homo erectus

     

Pithecanthropus erectusSinanthropus pekinensisJavanthropus soloensisMeganthropus paleojavanicus

Trivia about homo erectus

  • Java Man & Peking Man are examples of this guy who stands between Australopithecus & Homo sapiens
  • (Kelly of the Clue Crew holds a partial skull at the Smithsonian Hall of Human Origins.) The enlarged brain of this early human species helped it become the longest-lived member of the human family tree; named for its upright posture, it survived nine times longer than our species has been around
  • Anthropologists say this was the first of the genus Homo to leave Africa, sometime after 1.8 million years ago
  • Java man is an example of this forerunner of ours whose name is Latin for "upright man"
  • Dubois found the first fossils IDed as this species of our genus; later, finding a femur convinced him that it walked upright
  • Discovered in 1984, the Nariokotome boy was assigned to this species of standup guys from 1 ½ million B.C.