“Of course it would be presumptuous for us to say we’ve dated the very last Homo erectus, ” he says.
In a new study in Nature, Ciochon and colleagues have written what, at least for now, appears to be the hominin’s final chapter. “Of course it would be presumptuous for us to say we’ve dated the very last Homo erectus, ” he says. “We’ve dated the very last evidence that we have, the last appearance of Homo erectus. We don’t know if on some neighboring island Homo erectus existed for a little longer after our date.”