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Like modern humans, H. erectus varied widely in size, ranging from 146–185 cm (4 ft 9 in – 6 ft 1 in) in height and 40–68 kg (88–150 lb) in weight, thought to be due to regional differences in climate, mortality rates, or nutrition.
Peking Man (Homo erectus pekinensis) is a subspecies of H. erectus which inhabited what is now northern China during the Middle Pleistocene. Its fossils have been found in a cave some 47 km (29 mi) southwest of Beijing (then referred to in the West as Peking ), known as the Zhoukoudian Peking Man Site .
The gender differences in size vary by more specific brain regions. ... height, and weight, ... Homo erectus; 850–1100 cm 3 ...
Female weight was about the same in contemporaneous H. erectus, but male H. erectus were on average 13 kg (28.7 lb) heavier than P. robustus males. [52] P. robustus sites are oddly dominated by small adults, which could be explained as heightened predation or mortality of the larger males of a group. [53]
The Xiahe mandible shows morphological similarities to some later East Asian fossils such as Penghu 1, [16] [23] but also to Chinese H. erectus. [14] In 2021, Chinese palaeoanthropologist Qiang Ji suggested his newly erected species, H. longi , may represent the Denisovans based on the similarity between the type specimen's molar and that of ...
The Dmanisi skull, also known as Skull 5 or D4500, is one of five skulls discovered in Dmanisi, Georgia and classified as early Homo erectus.Described in a publication in October 2013, it is estimated to be about 1.8 million years old and is the most complete skull of a Pleistocene Homo species, [1] [2] and the first complete adult hominin skull of that degree of antiquity.
Jaw of Homo ergaster (KNM ER 992 in the top-right, labelled as Homo erectus in the image) compared to jaws of other members of the genus Homo. It is frequently assumed that the larger body and brain size of H. ergaster, compared to its ancestors, would have brought with it increased dietary and energy needs. [48]
Female P. robustus were about the same estimated weight as female H. ergaster/H. erectus in Swartkrans, but they estimated male H. ergaster/H. erectus as much bigger at 55 kg (121 lb). [56] In 2012, American anthropologist Trenton Holliday, using the same equation as McHenry on three specimens, reported an average of 37 kg (82 lb) with a range ...