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Homo erectus

In Our Time: Science

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What Happens When Homorectus Leaves Africa?

The rit valley is a high energy environment for homorectus to evolve in. But as the lakes build up, they're so like pumping the population out of the area. This pushes human asof ancestor out of africa, into asia and down into places as far as indonesia. What use then did humel erectus make of ther newly liberated hands? They no longer had to on them. It also ties in what josie was saying about so of like how social we were. We were probably living homerexas, probably living in groups of about a hundred. That's because we can keep track of that number of people at that stage.

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