[blam]

GGG Ping.

"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.

[frogjerk]

"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?!?!?

[Alter Kaker]

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

That's simply not true. H. floresiensis may be descended from H. erectus but they are way too many differences to say that they are the same species.

[Junior]

I'm not sure of that. The "hobbits" were considered a subspecies of H. Erectus (but then, technically, so are H. Sapiens and H. Neanderthalensis). I have read articles wherein researchers have mde the claim H. Erectus existed in Southeast Asia until about 50k years ago, which means at least three species of humans shared the Earth at the same time.