Skull of Homo erectus throws story of human evolution into disarray
... de León, Zollikofe/University of Zurich ... So I still doubt that all of the 'early Homo' fossils can reasonably be lumped into an evolving Homo ...
Chris Stringer
"I think they will be proved right that some of those early African fossils can reasonably join a variable Homo erectus species," said <anchor>Chris Stringer</anchor>, head of human origins at the Natural History Museum in London. "But Africa is a huge continent with a deep record of the earliest stages of human evolution, and there certainly seems to have been species-level diversity there prior to two million years ago. So I still doubt that all of the 'early Homo' fossils can reasonably be lumped into an evolving Homo erectus lineage. We need similarly complete African fossils from two to 2.5m years ago to test that idea properly."
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