Dr Berger posits that sediba may have evolved directly into Homo erectus, leaving habilis as an evolutionary sideline, and not even part of the genus Homo.
而我們人屬（Homo）最早的成員出現於大約240至250萬年前。當直立人（Homo erectus）形成時，第一批人族離開了非洲，這一過程大約發生於180萬年前。
Until now, fossils dated to 1.9million years ago - and mostly attributed to Homo habilis and Homo rudolfensis - have been undisputed considered ancestral to Homo erectus.
Newcomers who left Africa 50,000 years ago and spread across the globe should have met Homo erectus and Neanderthals as well.
The New Idea of Modern Human Origin and the Classification of Beijing Homo erectus;
The first members of our genus appeared between 2.4 and 2.5 million years ago, while Homo erectus, the first hominin to leave Africa, had evolved by 1.8 million years ago.
The site of Nanjing Homo erectus and the Locality 1 at Zhoukoudian, Beijing are the important palaeoanthropological sites in China.
Later,50 fossils of Meganthropus palaeo and Pithecanthropus erectus/ Homo erectus were found half of all the world's known hominid fossils.
The North China Plain, covering southern Hebei, has been inhabited by humans for several millennia. The fossil remains of Homo erectus pekinensis were discovered there.
former genus of primitive apelike men now Homo erectus.
THE RECONSTRUCTION OF Homo erectus CRANIUM FROM TANGSHAN,NANJING,AND THE GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION OF Homo erectus IN MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE
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