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{{cquote|Now that comparable data is available it appears clear that if ''H. sapiens'' includes all the people alive in the world today, their ancestors in the Late Pleistocene and “archaic” ''H. sapiens'' like Dali and Xujiayao then vault thickness can not be used to distinguish ''H. erectus'' from ''H. sapiens''.<ref name=brown/>}} | {{cquote|Now that comparable data is available it appears clear that if ''H. sapiens'' includes all the people alive in the world today, their ancestors in the Late Pleistocene and “archaic” ''H. sapiens'' like Dali and Xujiayao then vault thickness can not be used to distinguish ''H. erectus'' from ''H. sapiens''.<ref name=brown/>}} | ||
Other researchers have shown that mixtures of ''Homo erectus'' and ''Homo sapiens'' traits occur at many locations around the globe. Skulls with ''Homo erectus''-like features are found in location such as Indonesia and Africa. Thick-vaulted and gracile (thin-vaulted) skulls are often found to co-occur in the same strata showing that they lived at the same time and place.<ref name=woodmorappe/> | |||
The morphology of the ''Homo erectus'' skull is virtually identical to Neandethal with the latter differing only by size. This tremendous similarity between the various ancient human fossils causes considerable difficulty for the evolutionist who attempts to place the discoveries in various categories. The African early ''Homo sapiens'' have been referred to as "African Neanderthals", and Asian ''Homo erectus'' fossils have been called "Asian Neanderthals". In fact some scholars treat Neaderthals as a population of late ''Homo erectus'', describing their skulls as an "''enlarged and developed version of the ''Homo erectus'' skull''". <ref>Lubenow p. 128</ref> Lubenow comments: | The morphology of the ''Homo erectus'' skull is virtually identical to Neandethal with the latter differing only by size. This tremendous similarity between the various ancient human fossils causes considerable difficulty for the evolutionist who attempts to place the discoveries in various categories. The African early ''Homo sapiens'' have been referred to as "African Neanderthals", and Asian ''Homo erectus'' fossils have been called "Asian Neanderthals". In fact some scholars treat Neaderthals as a population of late ''Homo erectus'', describing their skulls as an "''enlarged and developed version of the ''Homo erectus'' skull''". <ref>Lubenow p. 128</ref> Lubenow comments: | ||
