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The Language of the GenesIn Africa beasts which looked much like Lucy and her relatives lived for thousands of years alongside Homo habilts. For much of the time, several species of Homo may have lived together, a situation hard to conceive today. Homo erectus was the first to escape from Africa and did so soon after it appeared. Erectus bones almost two million years old, mixed with those of sabre-toothed tigers and elephants, have been found in the the Republic of Georgia and this species soon spread, in modified form, to the Middle East, China, Java and Europe. Its remains include 'Java Man1 and 'Peking Man' (whose bones disappeared during the Japanese invasion of China) which had a static existence with almost no change in the skull over its long history. The first Homo sapiens — some of which look rather like erectus — emerged in Africa more than four hundred thousand years ago. They were robust and would appear distinctly hostile to modern eyes, although some had brains larger than the average today. A half-million-yrnr-oid skull that may belong to this group was found M Knxgrove in Sussex ...» |
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