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Title
When did ‘Homo erectus’ die out? A fresh look at the demise of an ancient human species over 100,000 years ago
Published by
The Conversation
DOI 10.64628/aa.utgpqa6ct
Authors

Westaway, Kira, Westaway, Michael, Ciochon, Russell

Abstract

Our extinct, distant cousins still lived in Indonesia 110,000 years ago.

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Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 151. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 September 2025.
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#345,142
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#40,772
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Altmetric has tracked 34,437,553 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 213,223 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 99.0. This one has done well, scoring higher than 80% of its peers.