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A 5 page research paper on Homo Erectus -- an early evolutionary version of human originally believed to have started in Africa, and now in Asia. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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thigh-bone, contrasted remarkably. The skull-cap, significantly smaller and lower in height than those of modern humans, had a large projecting brow ridge and a sloping forehead. The inside of the
skull had a brain volume about half that of modern humans. The thigh-bone, on the other hand, was identical to that of a modern human, demonstrating that this creature had
walked bipedally, like living people. Dubois believed he had discovered the long sought-after "missing link" between the apes and humans, and he thus named his finds Pithecanthropus erectus, which means
"erect-postured ape-man." Later, after other, more complete fossils similar in appearance had been found that showed the presence of many modern humanlike physical features, this name was changed to Homo
erectus, closely related to Homo sapiens, the species of modern humans (Brown, 1994). To date, Homo Erectus is, for all practical purposes, one of the
earliest evolutionary version of man known to scientists. For quite some time, we had believed that the Homo Erectus began in Africa-- until recently, when it was found to have
actually originated in Asia. The first Homo, because a bigger brain had made it more daring and because of an omnivorous diet, which made it more mobile, was the
first to expand its territory. What was originally posited was that these adventurers soon reached the Middle East from East Africa and then went on to Europe and Asia, gradually
transforming themselves into what we used to call Homo erectus and Homo sapiens, which are not in fact true species (Freind, 1994). But the successive glaciations of
the quaternary period, covering the Alps and Scandinavia as well as Germany and Poland, isolated the first hominid population. In such a case, a genetic drift happens to the
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