Phillip Vallentine Tobias
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Emeritus Professor of Anatomy and Human Biology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Author of Olduvai Gorge (vol. 2 and 4).
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Homo erectus, extinct species of the human genus (Homo), perhaps an ancestor of modern humans (Homo sapiens). H. erectus most likely originated in Africa, though Eurasia cannot be ruled out. Regardless of where it first evolved, the species seems to have dispersed quickly, starting about 1.9β¦
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