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Homo erectus

Homo erectus

Homo erectus is an extinct species of the genus Homo, which originated in Africa and to have spread as far as China and Java. Amongst scientists it is uncontroversially considered to be a direct ancestor of modern humans. H. erectus originally migrated from Africa during the Early Pleistocene, possibly as a result of the operation of the Saharan pump, around 2.0 million years ago, and dispersed throughout much of the Old World.

 
 
Homo (genus)

Homo (genus)

Homo is the genus that includes modern humans and their close relatives. The genus is estimated to be about 2.5 million years old, evolving from Australopithecine ancestors with the appearance of Homo habilis. Appearance of Homo coincides with the first evidence of stone tools, and thus by definition with the beginning of the Lower Paleolithic. All species except Homo sapiens (modern humans) are extinct.

 
 
Homo habilis

Homo habilis

Homo habilis ("handy man") is a species of the genus Homo, which lived from approximately 2.5 million to at least 1.6 million years ago at the beginning of the Pleistocene. The discovery and description of this species is credited to both Mary and Louis Leakey, who found fossils in Tanzania, East Africa, between 1962 and 1964. Homo habilis is the earliest known species of the genus Homo. In its appearance and morphology, H.

 
 
Homo heidelbergensis

Homo heidelbergensis

Homo heidelbergensis ("Heidelberg Man") is an extinct species of the genus Homo which may be the direct ancestor of both Homo neanderthalensis in Europe and Homo sapiens. The best evidence found for these hominin date between 600,000 and 400,000 years ago. H. heidelbergensis stone tool technology was very close to that of the Acheulean tools used by Homo erectus.

 
 
Homo ergaster

Homo ergaster

'Homo ergaster' is an extinct hominid species that lived in eastern and southern Africa beginning about 1.9 million years ago during the late Pliocene epoch. Long-standing debate about the classification of H. ergaster has categorised it as a subspecies of Homo erectus, a separate species of African erectus, a broader-defined species (including H. erectus and H. heidelbergensis), or in strict species definition as temporal form of Homo sapiens.

 
 
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Namdapha flying squirrel

The Namdapha Flying Squirrel (Biswamoyopterus biswasi), the sole species placed in the genus Biswamoyopterus, is an arboreal, nocturnal flying squirrel endemic to India, and is listed as a critically endangered species due to habitat loss. First collected in Deban (on 27 April 1981), no population estimates are available for B.