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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/>}} | ||
[[File:Homo erectus pelvis.jpg|thumb|250px|Homo erectus was previously thought to produce babies with relatively small brain capacity. However the discovery of the pictured pelvis has shown that they were actually capable of birthing babies with a cranial circumference very close to the lower end of the range of our own species.<ref name=nsf>[http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?org=NSF&cntn_id=112620 Discovery Questions Intelligence of Human Ancestor] National Science Foundation, Press Release 08-203, November 18, 2008.</ref>]] | [[File:Homo erectus pelvis.jpg|thumb|250px|Homo erectus was previously thought to produce babies with relatively small brain capacity. However the discovery of the pictured pelvis has shown that they were actually capable of birthing babies with a cranial circumference very close to the lower end of the range of our own species.<ref name=nsf>[http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?org=NSF&cntn_id=112620 Discovery Questions Intelligence of Human Ancestor] National Science Foundation, Press Release 08-203, November 18, 2008.</ref>]] | ||
