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Reconstructed adult body dimensions range from 148–167 cm (4 ft 10 in – 5 ft 6 in) in height and about 50 kg (110 lb) in weight. H. erectus invented the Acheulean industry, a major innovation of large, heavy-duty stone tools, which may have been used in butchery, vegetable processing, and woodworking of maybe digging sticks and spears.
H. erectus in such northerly latitudes may have averaged roughly 150 cm (4 ft 11 in) in height, compared to 160 cm (5 ft 3 in) for more tropical populations. Peking Man lived in a cool, predominantly steppe, partially forested environment, alongside deer, rhinos, elephants, bison, buffalo, bears, wolves, big cats, and other animals.
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]
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 ...
Homo (from Latin homÅ '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.
Proponents of synonymisation typically designate H. ergaster as "African Homo erectus" [2] or "Homo erectus ergaster". [3] The name Homo ergaster roughly translates to " working man", a reference to the more advanced tools used by the species in comparison to those of their ancestors.
The team found that each 0.2 increase in the HDI saw an increase in height of approximately 1.68 centimeters (0.66 inches) for women and 4.03 centimeters (1.59 inches) for men, as well as an ...
The Calvarial height above g-l, above g-op and above n-op, were measured at 51mm, 73mm and 80mm, respectively; Endocranial capacity was found to be around 986ml. [7] The strong flexion that is apparent in Daka strengthens the theory that midsagittal cranial base flexion was strong in Homo erectus in general. [7]