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  2. Homo erectus - Wikipedia

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    Homo erectus (/ ˌ h oʊ m oʊ ə ˈ r ɛ k t ə s / lit. ' upright man ') is an extinct species of archaic human from the Pleistocene, spanning nearly 2 million years.It is the first human species to evolve a humanlike body plan and gait, to leave Africa and colonize Asia and Europe, and to wield fire.

  3. Java Man - Wikipedia

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    Java Man (Homo erectus erectus, formerly also Anthropopithecus erectus or Pithecanthropus erectus) is an early human fossil discovered in 1891 and 1892 on the island of Java (Indonesia). Estimated to be between 700,000 and 1,490,000 years old, it was, at the time of its discovery, the oldest hominid fossil ever found, and it remains the type ...

  4. Human taxonomy - Wikipedia

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    Fossil KNM-ER 1470 (discovered in 1972, designated Pithecanthropus rudolfensis by Alekseyev 1978) is now seen as either a third early species of Homo (alongside H. habilis and H. erectus) at about 2 million years ago, or alternatively as transitional between Australopithecus and Homo.

  5. Homo - Wikipedia

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    Homo (from Latin homō 'human') is a genus of great ape (family Hominidae) that emerged from the genus Australopithecus and encompasses only a single extant species, Homo sapiens (modern humans), along with a number of extinct species (collectively called archaic humans) classified as either ancestral or closely related to modern humans; these include Homo erectus and Homo neanderthalensis.

  6. Names for the human species - Wikipedia

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    Edgar Morin, 1973 The Lost Paradigm: Human Nature: Homo deus "human god" Man as god, endowed with supernatural abilities such as eternal life as outlined in Yuval Noah Harari's 2015 book Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow: Homo dictyous "network man" Humankind as having a brain evolved for social connections Homo discens "learning man"

  7. H. erectus (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    H. erectus is Homo erectus, a species of human theorized to be the ancestor of Homo sapiens. H. erectus may also refer to: Hippocampus erectus, a species of seahorse; Hercostomus erectus, a species of the fly genus Hercostomus

  8. Early expansions of hominins out of Africa - Wikipedia

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    Homo erectus emerges just after 2 million years ago. [11] Early H. erectus would have lived face to face with H. habilis in East Africa for nearly half a million years. [12] The oldest Homo erectus fossils appear almost contemporaneously

  9. Ancient Greek personal names - Wikipedia

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    The study of ancient Greek personal names is a branch of onomastics, the study of names, [1] and more specifically of anthroponomastics, the study of names of persons.There are hundreds of thousands and even millions of individuals whose Greek name are on record; they are thus an important resource for any general study of naming, as well as for the study of ancient Greece itself.