Peking Man
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Peking Man is a subspecies of H. erectus which inhabited what is now northern China during the Middle Pleistocene. Its fossils have been found in a cave some 50 km southwest of Beijing, known as the Z
Skull pekingman
Reconstruction of Skull XI with a hypothetical jawbone
Zhoukoudian Locality 1, where the first relatively complete skullcap was discovered
One of the Peking Man teeth at the Palaeontological Museum of Uppsala University
Homo
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Homo is a genus of great ape that emerged from the genus Australopithecus, encompassing a single extant species, Homo sapiens, along with a number of extinct species classified as either ancestral or
Peking Man
…went out to colonise the rest of the Old World, where it evolved into "Pithecanthropus" in Southeast Asia, "Eoanthropus" (Piltdown Man) in Europe, and Homo (Kanam Mandible) in Africa. Citing degeneration theory, Grabau believed that "Pithecanthropus" and African Homo had regressed to a more primitive state…
Reconstruction of Australopithecus afarensis, Natural History Museum, Vienna
Reconstruction of H. ergaster, American Museum of Natural History
Homo heidelbergensis may have evolved from H. ergaster, possibly following an intense population bottleneck 800,000 to 900,000 years ago.
Teilhardina DB15