But some now think it could have been an earlier hominid known as Homo habilis.
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And the Stress Age Homo Sapiens of 2005 has not evolved much from Stone Age man.
These were Australopithecus (or Paranthropus) robustus and an early species of Homo, possibly Homo erectus.
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Mann dubs this period the Homo-genocene, referring to the increasing homogeneity of the world.
But its previous attribution was made because it does not look much like Homo habilis either.
Comparisons with other sites show that Homo erectus survived successive warm and cold periods in northern Asia.
Two distinct traits of Homo sapiens, as compared to other species, are technology and social cooperation among non-relatives.
If that series of circumstances had been even slightly different, there would have been no egg-headed Homo sapiens.
The two species had lived separately since splitting off from a common ancestor, Homo heidelbergensis, 160, 000 years earlier.
This is that Homo sapiens became sole ruler of the planet because he was better at manipulating tools.
But many questions remain about the genetic relationships between these early modern humans and present-day Homo sapiens populations.
For this homo is the Greek for same, not Latin for man, and the word is all Greek.
American college kids, whatever their charms, are a laughable proxy for Homo sapiens.
Homo economicus would accept any division in which his share was not zero.
Taxes is explicitly about ecological sustainabiilty amongst any group of heavy-handed Homo sapiens.
Only in a brief postscript do we learn that pithecanthropus now goes by the more familiar name homo erectus.
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Homo sapiens evolved in Africa and lived only there for around 100, 000 years.
No other primate has ever experienced a childhood as lengthy as Homo sapiens.
Ms Hardwick makes the question of Melville's homo-eroticism deeply interesting in this connection.
The researchers had thought the Hobbit's island-hopping ancestor was Homo erectus, which is known to have lived on nearby Java.
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"The authors make a compelling case that H. floresiensis could be descended from an early Homo erectus population, " she said.
Our own species, Homo sapiens, evolved in Africa, and displaced the Neanderthals after entering Europe somewhere around the 45, 000-year mark.
Adam at once ideological and post-ideological, vaguely engaged and profoundly spectatorial, charming and loathsome is a convincing representative of twenty-first-century American Homo literatus.
Obviously, if there were no Homo sapiens, Sandy would have caused pretty much the same overwash, with or without warmer seas.
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Forty thousand years ago, their long-lost Homo sapiens cousins from Africa began to show their high-browed, dark-skinned faces in Neanderthals' haunts.
He told Konig that he was banning phallic imagery the most obvious sign that an alien was designed by a nerdy Homo sapiens.
Homo floresiensis, as most researchers other than Dr Jacob had always suspected, seems to be a locally evolved descendant of Homo erectus.
During his 1977 mayoral campaign against Mario Cuomo, posters that read "Vote for Cuomo, Not the Homo" mysteriously appeared in some neighborhoods.
Certainly something must explain the success of Homo sapiens, and the speed with which the species spread and swept other hominids away.
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