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Homo erectus
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Translingual
Homo erectus
Etymology
From mul la homō̆ man + la ērēctus erect, high; upright man 1.
Proper noun
†m 1 Homo erectus la Homines erecti
species family Hominidae erectines
en Alan Houghton Brodrick Man and His Ancestors Radius Book/Hutchinson 1971 18 0 09 107691 9 So, men not unlike Homines sapientes were living in Europe at least while Homines erecti (Pithecanthropoids) flourished not only in Africa and Asia but also very possibly in Europe. mul
fr Jean-Jacques Dubois Comprendre le malheur Louise Courteau 2007 978-2-924024-56-0 Quelques individus parmi les Homines erecti dotés d’un cortex cérébral plus volumineux ont développé leur intelligence à la faveur d’une grande glaciation. Some individuals among the Homo erectus endowed with a more voluminous cerebral cortex developed their intelligence thanks to a great glaciation. mul
en mul James Griffiths This is how the ‘Hobbits’ of Indonesia became so small w:CNN https://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/09/asia/indonesia-flores-hobbits-trnd/index.html 2016-06-09 “The morphology of the fossil teeth also suggests that this human lineage represents a dwarfed descendant of early Homo erectus that somehow got marooned on the island of Flores,” Yousuke Kaifu, from Tokyo’s National Museum of Nature and Science, said in a statement. https://web.archive.org/web/20210411004955/https://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/09/asia/indonesia-flores-hobbits-trnd/index.html
de Günter Dux Historisch-genetische Theorie der Kultur Springer VS 2017 257 978-3-658-16418-8 Die Hominiden konnten mit der anlaufenden Enkulturation einen Fitneßvorteil über ihre anthropoiden Vorfahren verbinden, die Homines sapientes mit der vollständigen Entwicklung der Sprache über die Homines erecti. mul
Synonyms
†Pithecanthropus erectus species, †Sinanthropus genus
Hypernyms
species
Derived terms
mul †Homo erectus erectus subspecies Java man †Homo erectus soloensis subspecies Solo man †Homo erectus lantianensis subspecies Lantian man †Homo erectus pekinensis subspecies Peking man †Homo erectus nankinensis subspecies Nanjing man †Homo erectus wushanensis subspecies Wushan man †Homo erectus yuanmouensis subspecies Yuanmou man
mul Hominids