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The first member of the genus Homo to be hairless was Homo erectus, originating about 1.6 million years ago. [6] The dissipation of body heat remains the most widely accepted evolutionary explanation for the loss of body hair in early members of the genus Homo, the surviving member of which is modern humans.
The extant Homo heidelbergensis (cladistically granting Homo sapiens), which was originally African, emerged within the Asian Homo erectus. Contemporary groups appear to have been interbreeding, so any phylogeny like this only gives a coarse impression of the evolution of Homo , and extinct lineage may have partially continued in other groupings.
These sites attest that early Homo erectus have crossed the North African tracts, which are usually hot and dry. [4]: 2 There is little time between Homo erectus' apparent arrival in South Caucasus around 1.8 Ma, and its probable arrival in East and Southeast Asia.
The researchers believe Homo erectus became isolated on the island around 1 million years ago and underwent a dramatic reduction in body size during a period of around 300,000 years. Such a ...
A recent analysis of fossils belonging to Homo floresiensis found at the Mata Menge site on Flores supports the idea that the hobbits were a dwarfed version of the extinct species Homo erectus.
Around 1.8 million years ago, Homo erectus migrated out of Africa via the Levantine corridor and Horn of Africa to Eurasia. This migration has been proposed as being related to the operation of the Saharan pump, around 1.9 million years ago. [citation needed] Homo erectus dispersed throughout most of the Old World, reaching as far as Southeast ...
Homo erectus: 1891 Indonesia: Eugène Dubois: Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden Ternifine 2-3 now Tighennif [61] 0.70 Homo erectus: 1954 Algeria: C. Arambourg & B. Hoffstetter Sangiran 17 [62] 0.70 Homo erectus: 1969 Indonesia: S. Sartono Peking Man: 0.73±0.50 [63] Homo erectus: 1921 China: Davidson Black: Lost/stolen Nanjing Man: 0.60±0. ...
The oldest controlled use of fire by Homo erectus also was discovered at Swartkrans and dated to more than 1 million years ago. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] In 1966, Phillip Tobias began his excavations of Sterkfontein that are still continuing and are the longest continuously running fossil excavations in the world.