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20 lug 2024 · SK 847 is the abbreviated designation for the fossilized fragments of a Homo habilis cranium, discovered in South Africa, which was dated to an age between 1.8 and 1.5 million years. This fossil shares morphological traits with the early African Homo erectus, sometimes known as Homo ergaster.
1 giorno fa · Homo erectus is the most long-lived species of Homo, having survived for almost two million years. By contrast, Homo sapiens emerged about a third of a million years ago.
20 lug 2024 · Heberer (1963) provisionally named a new species Homo leakeyi based on the specimen in honor of Leakey, but most subsequent workers have regarded it as Homo ergaster, or as Homo erectus (H. ergaster is sometimes regarded as a subspecies of H. erectus, H. erectus ergaster).
2 lug 2024 · Homo heidelbergensis, extinct species of archaic human (genus Homo) known from fossils dating from 600,000 to 200,000 years ago in Africa, Europe, and possibly Asia.
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8 lug 2024 · For years, we knew about the hominins at Olorgesailie through the artifacts they left. The dates of the sediments made it likely that that hominin species responsible for the tools was Homo erectus. Finally, in 2003, the first hominin fossil of Olorgesailie was found.
4 lug 2024 · The recovery of a unusually complete skeleton, however, offered up a new species; H. ergaster, which lived 1.9–1.5 mya in eastern Africa. H. ergaster is thought to be ancestral to later Homo species.
4 lug 2024 · The most ancient fossils of Homo (in eastern Africa) exhibit some features that tie them to A. afarensis and may constitute the glimmerings of a Homo lineage that underwent brain expansion and tooth reduction and ultimately began to
