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Homo erectus was a species of early human that lived during the Pleistocene epoch in Asia, Europe and Africa.[1] It was one of the first human species to have left Africa and laid the foundation for future humans such as Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis.[2] Homo erectus, particularly the subspecies known as Homo erectus pekinensis or “Peking Man,” represents an important stage in human evolution and in the deep prehistory of classless society. Living in northern China roughly 750,000 to 300,000 years ago, these early humans developed a cooperative, egalitarian way of life rooted in communal hunting, food sharing, and mutual defense. Archaeological evidence from Zhoukoudian shows that Peking Man communities organized themselves without private property, class divisions, or exploitation, instead surviving through collective labor and shared resources. This mode of production—what Marxist anthropology identifies as primitive communism—was the foundation for human survival for hundreds of thousands of years before the rise of class society.[3]
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- ↑ Louise Barrett (2003). Walking with Cavemen. BBC Books. ISBN 978-0755311774
- ↑ Günter Bräuer, Emma Mbua (1992). Homo erectus features used in cladistics and their variability in Asian and African hominids. Journal of Human Evolution. doi: 10.1016/0047-2484(92)90032-5 [HUB]
- ↑ Sigrid Schmalzer (2008). The people's Peking man : popular science and human identity in twentieth-century China. University of Chicago Press.