The First Dispersal of the Genus Homo: Homo erectus and Contemporaries
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Introduction A New Kind of Hominin The Morphology of Homo erectus Body Size Brain Size Cranial Shape The First Homo erectus: Homo erectus from Africa Who Were the Earliest African Emigrants? Homo erectus from Indonesia Homo erectus from China Zhoukoudian Homo erectus Other Chinese Sites Asian and African Homo erectus: A Comparison Later Hominins from Europe Archaeology of Early Hominin Dispersal Seeing the Big Picture: Interpretations of Homo erectus Paleoanthropology/Fossil Hominins
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تاریخ انتشار 2012