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Homo Erectus is claimed to be the earliest generally accepted representative of the genus Homo, and is dated at 500,000 years old. Many remains of this type have been found around the world. They are smaller than the average human today, with an appropriately smaller head (and brain size). However, the brain size is within the range of people today and studies of the middle ear have shown that Homo erectus was just like us. Remains have been found in the same strata and in close proximity to ordinary Homo sapiens, suggesting that they lived together.

With the discovery of the Turkana 'Boy' WT 15000 in 1984 in Kenya, it is no longer possible to hold to the position that Homo erectus was only a large-brained pongid as some evolutionists have claimed. Far from dismissing erectus forms as being only large extinct apes or frauds, the pendulum is now swinging to the view that most, if not all erectus specimens are indeed full members of the human race.

Endocranial volume is supposedly important when distinguishing between ape forms and humans. The modern human range runs from about 700cc to 2200cc, and this puts every adult erectus specimen comfortably into the range of modern humans, and this range also covers every adult example of the archaic sapiens, Neanderthal, and Cro-Magnon Man.

Piltdown Man was another alleged ancestor in this age category but was proven to be a fraud. Most scientists claimed that Piltdown Man was a genuine ancestor to man, but someone had taken the skull of a human and the jawbone of an ape and filed the teeth down to make them look more human. Chemicals were used to make the specimens look old and even the "experts" were fooled by this hoax for 40 years. The Piltdown hoax of 1912- 1914 was not uncovered until 1953.

Java Man (pithecanthropus erectus) was another claim in which speculation and deceit rather that factual evidence was used to prove this find to be a true ape-man link. The evidence found over a century ago in the Trinil gravel beds in Java consisted of one legbone, three teeth and part of a skull. The leg bone appeared human and was found 14 meters apart from the skull cap and teeth. What was suppressed for many years was the fact that Dubois (the discoverer of these fossils) found two other human skulls in the same level of rock and confessed at the end of his life that the Java Man fossils belonged to that of a giant gibbon, so in effect this was a composite of two individuals, both a man and an ape.

Peking Man (Sinanthropus pekinensis) was once presented as an ape-man but has now been reclassified as Homo erectus.

Conclusion: Homo Erectus was just like us.