paleoanthro-indx.htm
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earth-indx.htm
1. Introduction to Paleoanthropology - intro.htm
2.
Primate Fossils found in Myanmarpré - Fossil.htm
3. Homo erectus in East Asia: Human Ancestor or Evolutionary Dead-End?
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DEtler-HomoErectAsia<Ô> /
Bkp<Ô> (link
chk 190510)
"In order to better understand the nature of Homo erectus, the
significance of its evolutionary history in East Asia, and the role it played in
human evolution, it is first necessary to come to grips with what is meant by
the term itself, as H. erectus has come to mean different things to
different people. For some, H. erectus represents the first truly
pandemic human species and the direct progenitor of archaic and modern H.
sapiens. For others, H. erectusis an interesting footnote to the saga
of human evolution, a distinct species that emerged in the East, only to go
extinct without issue when modern humans expanded their range out of Africa to
encompass the far reaches of the Old World. ..."
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