Our Origins: Discovering Physical Anthropology (Fourth Edition)
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Author: Clark Spencer Larsen
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To explain: Why Homo erectus was found to be the first species that was capable of widespread existence using specific cultural as well as biological features and the concepts of migration, reproduction, and survival.
Introduction: The hominin Homo erectus has appeared around 1.8 million years ago and it was considered as a descendant taxon of the earliest hominin Homo habilis. The fossil records of H. erectus is represented in Europe, Asia, and Africa.
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