Noel T. Boaz and Russell L. Ciochon, Dragon Bone Hill: An Ice-Age Saga of Homo erectus (2004), investigates the science and saga of the remains found at Zhoukoudian, China. Alan Walker and Pat Shipman, The Wisdom of the Bones: In Search of Human Origins (1996), is a similar treatment of the Nariokotome skeleton of Kenya. G. Philip Rightmire, The Evolution of Homo erectus: Comparative Anatomical Studies of an Extinct Human Species (1990, reissued 1993), is a more advanced examination of Homo erectus fossil evidence.
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