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Successive dispersals of Homo erectus (yellow), Homo neanderthalensis (ochre) and Homo sapiens (red), with the numbers of years since they appeared.. Several expansions of populations of archaic humans (genus Homo) out of Africa and throughout Eurasia took place in the course of the Lower Paleolithic, and into the beginning Middle Paleolithic, between about 2.1 million and 0.2 million years ...
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.
Between 2 and less than a million years ago, Homo spread throughout East Africa and to Southern Africa (Homo ergaster), but not yet to West Africa. 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 ...
From its earliest appearance at about 1.9 Ma, H. erectus is distributed in East Africa and Southwest Asia (Homo georgicus). H. erectus is the first known species to develop control of fire, by about 1.5 Ma. H. erectus later migrates throughout Eurasia, reaching Southeast Asia by 0.7 Ma.
The technology demonstrates an increase in brain development and complexity in Homo erectus, as shown by the increased level of forethought and knowledge of material required for production of the tools. [13] Homo erectus are also associated with the first instances of "modern human living,, such as fire, "modern emotions", and art. [14]
Before Homo sapiens, Homo erectus had already spread throughout Africa and non-Arctic Eurasia by about one million years ago. The oldest known evidence for anatomically modern humans (as of 2017) are fossils found at Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, dated about 360,000 years old.
Homo erectus: 1960 Olduvai, Tanzania: Louis Leakey: Sima del Elephante maxilla [54] 1.40 Homo erectus? 2022 Spain: ATE9-1 [55] 1.20 Homo sp. or Homo erectus? [54] 2008 Spain: Eudald Carbonell: Museo de la Evolución Humana, Burgos (Spain) Kocabaş: 1.10 [56] Homo erectus [57] 2002 Turkey: M. Cihat Alçiçek: Daka: 1.00 Homo erectus: 1997 ...
Leakey named it "Chellean Man", in reference to the Oldowan tools found at the site, which were then referred to by the now-obsolete name Chellean.Heberer (1963) provisionally named a new species Homo leakeyi based on the specimen in honor of Leakey, [3] but most subsequent workers have regarded it as Homo ergaster, or as Homo erectus (H. ergaster is sometimes regarded as a subspecies of H ...