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Homo erectus

Taxonomy

Homo erectus was named by Dubois (1892). It is not extant.

Sister species

Synonyms

Homo ergaster was named by Groves and Mazak (1975). It is not extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Homo erectus by Vekua et al. (2002).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1892	Homo erectus Dubois
1975	Homo ergaster Groves and Mazak

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