erectus

Mr. McAllister inadvertently answers the question at book's end by envisioning a male Homo erectus from a million years ago, plucked off the African plain and plunked down at a Nascar event.

Testosterone Put to the Test Dave Shiflett 2010

To put that into perspective, if we were to go back 45,000 human generations, that would be about a million years, back to the time of Homo erectus, which is not very long ago.

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

To put that into perspective, if we were to go back 45,000 human generations, that would be about a million years, back to the time of Homo erectus, which is not very long ago.

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

"What they're calling erectus might be a new, as-yet-unnamed species."

The Human Family Shrub? 2007

Seriously impressive brain expansion did not begin until about 2 million years ago with Homo erectus, that is, after 3 million years of hominid evolution had gone by.

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

They are now classified along with us in the genus Homo, retaining Dubois’ specific name erectus: Homo erectus.

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

They are now classified along with us in the genus Homo, retaining Dubois’ specific name erectus: Homo erectus.

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

On that scale, I think Jeff will agree with me that it’s absurd to call erectus “little more than apes”.

Intelligent design and Homo erectus - The Panda's Thumb 2005

Dubbed "x-woman" by the researchers, despite its undetermined gender, the pinky owner may have belonged to an archaic human species such as Homo erectus or Homo heidelbergensis, known only from fossils, or an unknown pre-human species.

Fossil DNA analysis may have revealed new human species 2010

The owner of a 40,000-year-old pinky bone may have belonged to an archaic human species known only from fossils such as Homo heidelbergensis, shown as a bust above, or Homo erectus, or a completely unknown pre-human species.

Fossil DNA analysis may have revealed new human species 2010