How might we describe and explain the evolutionary pattern of H. erectus?
These are some of the questions that researchers ask of H. erectus fossils: How did the ecology of Homo erectus differ from that of preceding hominins? What are the characteristics of H. erectus that allowed it to expand across different habitats throughout portions of Eurasia and Africa? What limitations constrained the expansion and evolution of H. erectus in the Pleistocene? What role did behavioral and technological innovation play in establishing the complex and geographically widespread evolutionary pattern of H. erectus? How might we describe and explain the evolutionary pattern of H. erectus?