Homo erectus: Ancient humans survived longer than we thought

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An ancient relative of modern humans survived into comparatively recent times in
South East Asia, a new study has revealed.
Homo erectus evolved around two million years ago, and was the first known human species
to walk fully upright.
New dating evidence shows that it survived until just over 100,000 years ago on the
Indonesian island of Java - long after it had vanished elsewhere.
This means it was still around when our own species was walking the Earth.