Homoerectus
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Well if there are no more questions I would like to continue our discussion of human evolution by looking at Homoerectus the earliest of our ancestors who stood upright Homoerectus lived about one and a half million years ago and was given that name because at the time the first fossil was discovered it represented the first primates to stand upright. There is evidence now that Homoerectus had sharper mental skills than their predecessors they constructed the first standardized tool for hunting and butchering they created an extraordinary stone implement a large teardrop-shaped hand axe whose design and symmetry with the key keen sense of aesthetics. This detailing along with the axes utilitarian value strongly suggests that Homoerectus have the ability to conceive and execute a design to specification. In addition, Homoerectus was the first hominid to use fire this discovery entice them to cook meat which they could flavoring keep from spoiling by a flame in and which paleontologists now believe may have given them a new disease.Some fossil bones of Homoerectus they're grossly deformed and paleontologists have noted that this condition is similar to that found in people today who have been exposed to chronic overdoses of vitamin A apparently Homoerectus first got this disease by eating large amounts of animal liver.
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