The Discoverer Of Homo Erectus Was Math

It is speculated that modern humans evolved from h erectus about 200 000 years ago.

The discoverer of homo erectus was math. 114 the american naturalist lo o o 8 ok 10 000 30 000. This is due to the fact that h erectus was the first of the hominins which is where most of our modern human traits began to appear in fossil records. Dated to between 1 million and 700 000 years old java man is known from the top half of a skull. The current consensus of anthropologists is that the direct ancestors of modern humans were african populations of homo erectus possibly homo ergaster rather than the asian populations exemplified by java man and peking man.

1 2 mya from sima del elefante. Importance of homo erectus. 113 this content downloaded from 134 84 3 217 on wed 01 apr 2015 22 40 04 utc all use subject to jstor terms and conditions. He retained the idea of constant slope but reduced snell s value this and all other translations from french and german sources are my own.

Homo erectus meaning upright man is an extinct species of archaic human from the pleistocene with its earliest occurrence about 2 million years ago and its specimens are among the first recognisable members of the genus homo. Dubois specimen was later classified as homo erectus a species that lived throught most of the pleistocene epoch originating in africa and spreading as far as england georgia india sri lanka china and java wikipedia article on java man accessed 08 21 2013. Von koenigswald first called the specimen pithecanthropus modjokertensis but soon renamed it homo modjokertensis because eugène dubois the discoverer of java man which was then called pithecanthropus erectus disagreed that the new fossil was a pithecanthropus. Moreover a certain species of h erectus was even classified as a separate species homo ergaster because the features were even more human like.

The earliest fossil evidence for homo erectus in western europe dates from. Its discoverer was the dutch anatomist eugène dubois who baptized him as anthropopitecus erectus name that he later changed to pithecanthropus erectus. The name given to the first homo erectus found was that of java man since it was found on the island of that same name in indonesia in 1891. The prominent brow ridge sagittal crest and flat forehead identify it as homo erectus.

Homo erecutus was first discovered by eugene dubois in 1891. The skullcap is now identified as belonging to the species homo erectus.