Homo erectus
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Homo erectus
[′hō·mō ə′rek·təs] (paleontology)
A type of fossil human from the Pleistocene of Java and China representing a specialized side branch in human evolution.
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Until this point, the most primitive hominid known was
Pithecanthropus erectus, discovered by Dubois (see 1890).
Dubois called the organism
Pithecanthropus erectus (erect ape-human), since the thighbone was sufficiently human to signify that the hominid had walked erect as we do.
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