Assignment Tasks: Homo ergaster
A package of new anatomical and physiological traits appear with Homo ergaster and erectus around or shortly after 2 million years ago. These appear to be mirrored by a number of important behavioural changes. These species were doing things that were are quite different from what we saw in earlier hominins. They tell a story about hominins doing things very differently from their evolutionary ancestos. What are these traits and what sort of picture do they paint of Homo erectus' adaptations and how they differ from previous hominins?