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erectus Latin, meaning `human standing upright` is a type of extinct human from the genus Homo. #124484512
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erectus Latin, meaning `human standing upright` is a type of extinct human from the genus Homo. An anatomist from the Netherlands, Eugene Dubois, described it in 1890 as Pithecanthropus erectus or `Javanese Man` based on skull and femur fossils found by his team at Trinil, Ngawi, East Java.
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