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The genus emerged with the appearance of Homo habilis just over 2 million years ago.

Homo erectus appeared about 2 million years ago and, in several early migrationsspread throughout Africa where it is dubbed Homo ergaster and Eurasia. It was likely the first human Homo Erectus to live in a hunter-gatherer society and to control fire.

An adaptive and successful species, Homo erectus persisted for more than a million years and gradually diverged into new species by aroundyears ago. Homo sapiens anatomically modern humans emerged close totoyears ago, [5] Homo Erectus likely in Africa, and Homo neanderthalensis emerged at around the same time in Europe and Western Asia.

Both in Africa and Eurasia, H. Separate archaic non- sapiens human species are thought to have survived until around 40, years Homo Erectus Neanderthal extinctionwith possible late survival of hybrid species as late as 12, years Homo Erectus Red Deer Cave people. Even today, the genus Homo has not been strictly defined. The discovery of Neanderthal brought the first addition. The genus Homo was https://amazonia.fiocruz.br/scdp/blog/purpose-of-case-study-in-psychology/mexico-and-costa-rica.php its taxonomic name to suggest that its member species can be classified as human.

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And, over the decades of the 20th century, fossil finds of pre-human and early human species from late Miocene and early Pliocene times produced a rich mix for debating classifications. There is continuing debate on delineating Homo from Australopithecus —or, Homo Erectus, delineating Homo from Panas one body of scientists argues that the two species of chimpanzee Erecfus be classed with genus Homo rather than Pan.

Many such names are now dubbed as " synonyms " with Homoincluding Pithecanthropus[18] Protanthropus[19] Sinanthropus[20] Cyphanthropus[21] Africanthropus[22] Telanthropus[23] Atlanthropus[24] and Tchadanthropus. Classifying the genus Homo into species and subspecies is subject to incomplete information Homo Erectus remains poorly done. This has led to using common names "Neanderthal" and "Denisovan"even in scientific papers, to avoid trinomial names or the ambiguity of classifying groups as incertae sedis Homo Erectus placement —for example, H. John Edward Gray was an early advocate of classifying taxa by designating tribes and families.]