H. erectus

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Proper noun

H. erectus m (plural H. erecti)

Used, in context, to shorten the name and simplify the pronunciation of a species name with a generic name beginning with H and a specific epithet of erectus.
1. (anthropology, archaeology) Homo erectus
  - 1883, Mélanges biologiques tirés du Bulletin de l’Académie impériale des sciences de St. Pétersbourg, volume XI (in Latin), page 167:
    Semina cum illis H. erecti subidentica.
    (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  - 1962, Carleton S[tevens] Coon, The Origin of Races (in English), London: Jonathan Cape, […], page 493:
    The skull base is narrow; the mastoids small; and the side walls of the skull are parallel, as in modern crania, instead of convergent as in the Eastern H. erecti.
  - 2015, Michael Pitman, A Mutant Ape?: The Origin of Man’s Descent (in English), Merops Press, →ISBN, page 177:
    There was, adherents claim, no ethnic interbreeding with Neanderthals or H. erecti either west or east; they were just replaced.
  - 2017, Simone dalla Chiesa, “Il mito del ‘selvaggio balbettante’ e l’origine della poesia giapponese”, in C. Bulfoni, E. Lupano, B. Mottura, editors, Sguardi sull’Asia e altri scritti in onore di Alessandra Cristina Lavagnino (in Italian), Milan: LED, →DOI, →ISBN, page 378:
    Falsificando innumerevoli siti archeologici nel corso di quasi trent’anni, tal Fujimura era riuscito a dimostrare che il primo popolamento dell’arcipelago fosse avvento già 700 kya, facendo degli H. erecti locali i Giapponesi di allora, e di questi una razza più antica dei Cinesi.
    (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  - 2021 April, Bob Forrester, “The Missing Dimension: Shamanism in Human Evolution”, in The Digging Stick, volume 38, number 1 (in English), →ISSN, page 2, column 2:
    Most H. erecti could not grasp how to make them.

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