Awasome Homo Erectus Group History Alive References. The general consensus among anthropologists is that we, homo sapien sapiens, evolved from homo erectus less than 2 million years ago (or even less than 1 million years ago. Long before other human subspecies like the neanderthals, denisovans and homo sapiens came the homo erectus, the first real example of a human species.

The species seems to have flourished until some 200,000 years ago (200. Homo erectus was nearly five feet in height and had strong bones. An adaptive and successful species, homo erectus persisted for more than a million years and gradually diverged into new species by around 500,000 years ago.





