Thursday, September 24, 2009

Homo erectus

  • a.k.a. Upright Man
  • More sophisticated stone tools
  • Larger brain
  • First to use fire (protection, heat, cooking)
  • First to leave Africa
  • Bigger brain
  • More parabolic (wider) mouth
  • Smaller teeth
  • Taller (more meat in diet)
  • Lived from 1.8 million to 200,000 B.C.E. and were around longer than other hominids
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 24, 2009 at 4:47 PM

    these comics are funny

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  2. Ruthy WilsonOctober 1, 2009 at 2:44 PM

    you should put a map og africa showing were each grouped lived

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