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Homo Erectus

The Ancients

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The Relationship Between Life History and Growth in Homo Erectus

We think that the basic life history is fairly similar to our own. They mature a little bit more quickly than we do. By the time you're a middle teenager, possibly a little bit later, we are still quite young. For an erecting, that may not have been the case. The reproductive cycle may have kicked in a little bit earlier. And one of the interesting things that accompanies this is there are two phases for humans which are important, and then that early teenage phase.

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