Homo Erectus fossils, or species, are early African humans, as well as the oldest known humans to have possessed modern human-like proportions. Even though Homo Erectus fossils relatively consisted of elongated legs and shorter arms compared to the torso. These features were considered adaptations to having to live life on ground; the loss of earlier tree climbing adaptations. Turkana boy is the most complete fossil of this species, his skeleton is dated to be 1.6 million years old. Studies indicate that he had grown at the similar rates as that of a great ape. The discoveries of this species began in the 1890s from Java and China, which contain examples of the Homo Erectus kind (humanorigins). The Homo Erectus, or the oldest human, have
