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Java or Peking man
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homo erectus
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' Homo erectus ' (meaning "upright man", from the Latin ērigere , "to put up, set upright") is an extinct species of hominid that lived throughout most of the Pleistocene geological epoch. Its earliest fossil evidence dates to 1.9 million years ago and ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pithecanthropus \Pith`e*can*thro"pus\ (p[i^]th`[-e]*k[a^]n*thr[=o]"p[u^]s), prop. n. [NL.; Gr. pi`qhkos ape + 'a`nqrwpos man.] A hypothetical genus of primates intermediate between man and the anthropoid apes. --Haeckel. A genus consisting of an extinct ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a member of an extinct species of human being; probably an ancestor of modern man extinct species of primitive hominid with upright stature but small brain; "Homo erectus was formerly called Pithecanthropus erectus"
Usage examples of homo erectus.
He thought that at the brain volume of Homo erectus-about 750 cubic centimeters, roughly the engine displacement of a fast motorcycle -the uniquely human qualities begin to emerge.
The famous Java Homo erectus fossils prove that humans have occupied at least western Indonesia for a million years.
Thus Homo erectus could have colonized virtually all of habitable Asia in that time, and may have done so.
Picture all of humanity from the earliest Homo erectus of a half-million years ago as a single human being.
If anyone came then, it was more likely to be Homo erectus -- and there's no credible evidence for that, either.