The current consensus of anthropologists is that the direct ancestors of modern humans were African populations of Homo erectus (possibly Homo ergaster), rather

The current consensus of anthropologists is that the direct ancestors of modern humans were African populations of Homo erectus (possibly Homo ergaster), rather than the Asian populations exemplified by Java Man and Peking Man. Somewhere I drew an analogy to Java the language, as described by pg in "The Hundred Year Language" - http://www.paulgraham.com/hundred.html http://www.paulgraham.com/hundred.html