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To: blam
"H. erectus lived between approximately 2 million to 400,000 years ago and is the first known primate to use significant tools and walk upright."

The 'Hobbits' discovered on Flores Island are Homo Erectus and they lived until about 12-13,000 years ago.

What's the margin of error on all these estimates?!?!?

10 posted on 11/22/2005 1:20:21 PM PST by frogjerk (LIBERALISM - Being miserable for no good reason)
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To: frogjerk
What's the margin of error on all these estimates?!?!?

The writer phrased it badly. H. erectus appeared around 2 million years ago and appears to have disappeared around 400,000 years ago.

16 posted on 11/22/2005 1:23:20 PM PST by Alter Kaker (Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one’s nose.-Heine)
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Almost complete, I'd say.


41 posted on 11/22/2005 1:43:23 PM PST by jagusafr (The proof that we are rightly related to God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not")
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