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NORTH 02 | Ancient Human | Homo Erectus

Homo erectus meaning "upright man", is an extinct species of archaic human from the Pleistocene, with its earliest occurrence about 2 million years ago.

Several human species, such as H. heidelbergensis and H. antecessor, with the former generally considered to have been the ancestor to Neanderthals, Denisovans, and modern humans, appear to have evolved from H. erectus.


Its specimens are among the first recognizable members of the genus Homo. H. erectus was the first human ancestor to spread throughout Eurasia, with a continental range extending from the Iberian Peninsula to Java.


Asian populations of H. erectus may be ancestral to H. floresiensis and possibly to H. luzonensis.


The last known population of H. erectus is H. e. soloensis from Java, around 117,000–108,000 years ago.

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