Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Solo Man

Solo Man

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/October 4, 2021 by Jimfbleak - talk to me?  12:46, 9 September 2021 (UTC)



Solo Man is the last known subspecies of Homo erectus (H. e. soloensis), existing 117 to 108 thousand years ago along the Solo River in Java, Indonesia. The first remains were discovered in 1931, and, in accordance with historical race concepts, were originally classified as the direct ancestors of Aboriginal Australians. Solo Man probably has no living descendants because the remains far predate modern human immigration into the area. The skull is elongated, and has inflated brows and cheekbones. Brain volume was large, ranging from 1,013–1,251 cc. Solo Man likely inhabited an open woodland environment much cooler than present-day Java, and went extinct with the takeover of tropical rainforest and loss of preferred habitat. They manufactured simple stone tools, and possibly spears or harpoons from bones, daggers from stingray stingers, as well as bolas or hammerstones from andesite.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Orangutan, 19 August 2021
 * Main editors:  User:Dunkleosteus77 &#124;push to talk
 * Promoted: 13 August 2021
 * Reasons for nomination: This is the only FA for a human species, and the 2nd for a great ape (the other being Orangutan)
 * Support as nominator.  User:Dunkleosteus77 &#124;push to talk 20:26, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Support per nominator. Hog Farm Talk 06:14, 31 August 2021 (UTC)