| “ | So far did Homo Ergaster travel that when we find them we even call them a different name, Homo Erectus | „ |
| — Allen Johnson, about Homo Erectus in The Massive Ape | ||
Homo erectus (name meaning "Upright Walking Man"), originally called Pithecanthropus erectus (name meaning "Upright Walking Apeman"), or sometimes referred to as Java Man, is a genus of archaic human from the Middle Pleistocene, earliest occurrence about 2 mya, and is one of the first recognizable members of the genus Homo.
In the Series 4 episode The Real King Kong, a group of Homo Erectus were encountered in Mid Pleistocene India, 500,000 years ago. They manage to find their way to the park when the team opened the portal. They since then became welcomed visitors to the park.
Facts[]
Era & Discovery[]
Homo Erectus lived in Asia during the Middle Pleistocene period from 2 million years ago to 108,000 years ago. They were among the first hominids to leave Africa and spread across the world and were one of the first humans to use fire.
The first record of Homo Erectus originates in 1891, when the top of a skull, a tooth, and thighbone were found in Java by Dutch paleoanthropologist Eugène Dubois.
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Homo Erectus skull
Physical Attributes[]
Homo Erectus stood 6.1 feet tall and weighed 65 kg making them similar in height to us.
Like Homo Ergaster back in Africa, Homo Erectus developed bodies that were hairless and evolved sweat glands in their skin. They also developed voices which we use today.
For Homo Erectus, we never found the elaborate stone axes that their cousins in Africa made use off. Instead they found a different tool which was easier to work: bamboo. Due to living in Asia, Homo Erectus lived in a land where tools grew like trees. They often hunted animals such as small deer and pigs that lived within the bamboo forest of their environment, but these hominids were not fussy and could easily rethink the menu. However there were a few animals in Homo Erectus' ecosystem with the capacity to scare such as the massive prehistoric ape: Gigantopithecus.
Behavior & Traits[]
Like their African relatives, Homo Erectus lived in groups that often drifted to places depending where food can be found. They also hunted together as a family within the Asian landscapes.
Journal Entry[]
| “ | The first hominids to leave Africa and one of the first humans to use fire, Homo Erectus were the first hominids whose eyes were the first to see the wonders of the eastern world. One thing that seprated Homo Erectus from Homo Ergaster is they didn't have the stoneaxes their african cousins made use of. Instead Homo Erectus used a different tools that was easier to work when hunting which was bamboo. The small deer and pigs they hunted were everyone throughout dense bamboo forests, but Homo Erectus were not fussy and could easily rethink the menu on what they ate.
For all of the confidence of Homo Erectus, there were still animals in their environment with the capacity to scare, one of them was the massive ape, Gigantopithecus. Homo Erectus were tough and adaptable, and in the landscapes of Asia they did very well. Sometime around half a million years ago, Homo Erectus encountered the most useful weapon which led to a break through which was fire. |
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| — Allen Johnson, in his journal about Homo Erectus | ||
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