A snapshot of our mysterious ancestor Homo erectus
- Written by Ian Moffat, ARC DECRA Research Fellow in Archaeological Science, Flinders University
Homo erectus had many features in common with Homo sapiens – but we still don't have a genetic profile for this species. from www.shutterstock.com
If you bumped into a Homo erectus in the street you might not recognise them as being very different from you. You’d see a certain “human-ness” in the stance, and his or her size...
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