Homo erectus
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A long-living hominin cousin of Homo sapiens that went extinct around the time of increasing human expansion out of Africa.
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All Of Human History In One Hour
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
A long-living hominin cousin of Homo sapiens that went extinct around the time of increasing human expansion out of Africa.
Richard Wrangham: Violence, Sex, and Fire in Human Evolution | Lex Fridman Podcast #229
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The first full member of the genus Homo, whose emergence around 2 million years ago is central to the theory that control of fire and cooking initiated major human evolutionary changes like smaller guts and bigger brains.