Definition of Homo erectus
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Apr. 2014
Homo erectus is the denomination that receives a now extinct superior primate of our planet, ancestor of the homo sapiens, species to which we human beings belong. Its name is not at all accidental and has a forceful meaning with regard to the evolution of man, since his name means the human being who walks upright, a quality that certainly distinguishes us men.
By the way, there are many characteristics that homo erectus shares with humans today, many inheritances being precisely this specimen that has already disappeared. It was a robust species, whose height oscillated the meter eighty. The differences lay in the absence of a chin, very small teeth, and a volume cranial inferior to that of man today.
According to studies, homo erectus was planted in the earth a little less than two million years ago and disappeared totally about one hundred and thirty thousand years ago, being its traces and remains found in the African, European and Asian. Native of Africa
To be more precise, it is worth noting that homo erectus, unlike previous hominids, left its place of origin to populate other regions such as those mentioned.In the early days, Homo erectus used the gathering of food as method from survivalIn the meantime, he would later leave this task to the women and went out to look for food more actively through the huntingEven the need to equip themselves with good elements to make the hunt effective developed tools such as the club.
Another finding attributed to homo erectus is the use and management of fire as an element of nature that had a double function: to give them heat in the winter and cook the food.
Worried about getting warm in the cold season, homo erectus, also had the intelligence practice of using animals, rather their skins, to cover themselves from the cold.
Although scientists still do not dare to give complete precision in this regard, it is believed that the last representatives of Homo erectus coexisted with Homo sapiens.
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