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Article: SO YOU WANT TO ENLIVEN A PARTY? INVITE HOMO ERECTUS.(LOCAL)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- December 14, 1996
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Byline: Guy Friddell
Scientists are ecstatic over a finding that Homo erectus, an early species of human kind, has been hanging around as recently as 27,000 years ago.
That is merely a wink in eternity. It is practically yesterday on evolution's long and twisting road.
What the scientists regard as a discovery doesn't surprise me.
I see hundreds of Homo erectus all the time. Like 'em, in fact, for the most part. Had a heated discussion with one the other day. And lost. (To lose in a just cause is about as close as we come to death without dying.)
If you haven't noticed Homo erectus is with us yet, gaze closely at your ...