Homo Erectus 
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Who were they and where did they originate? Where did they go and why did they leave Africa?

http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/H/Homoerec.asp

http://www.geocities.com/palaeoanthropology/Herectus.html

http://www.stanford.edu/~harryg/protected/chp22.htm

http://www.alysion.org/life/Homo.htm

http://cas.bellarmine.edu/tietjen/Evolution/Time/how_man_began_new_evidence_shows.htm (last 17 paragraphs)

http://www.ecotao.com/holism/hu_ergaster.htm

What was their lifestyle? (how did they survive?)

http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~jerwin/Week6.html

http://www.stanford.edu/~harryg/protected/chp22.htm

http://www.indiana.edu/~origins/teach/A105/lectures/A105.97.L22-25.html

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0824061.html

http://www.ecotao.com/holism/hu_habilis.htm

http://core.ecu.edu/anth/eastmanj/LowMidPaleo.htm

What do Homo and Erectus mean and why are they called this?

http://www.answers.com/topic/homo-erectus

When did they live?

http://www.wsu.edu:8001/vwsu/gened/learn-modules/top_longfor/timeline/erectus/erectus-a.html

How do we know they existed? (archaeological evidence) - Note especially Turkana Boy and Peking Man

http://www.modernhumanorigins.com/erectus.html

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/cavemen/fossils/fossils_zoom3.html

http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/~reffland/anthropology/anthro2003/origins/hominid_journey/turkana.html

http://northspringer.tripod.com/pekingsite/

What happened to Homo Erectus?

http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/nov99/942782998.Ev.r.html

The following vocabulary words should be defined and used in your written paper where appropriate:

Adapt

Awl

Bifacial

Bola

Environment

Protrude

Recede

Temperate

Tundra

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