Was homo erectus an ecological dominant species?

In John R. F. Bower & S. Sartono (eds.), Evolution and Ecology of Homo erectus. Pithecanthropus Centennial Foundation. pp. 169-176 (1995)
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Richard Alexander explains human uniqueness by postulating that at some point an ancestral species became 'ecological dominant' and the external forces of natural selection were replaced by within-species, intergroup competition. It is argued that this transition probably took place in archaic Homo sapiens (Homo heidelbergensis) and not in Homo erectus. Homo erectus was an ecological very flexible species, however.

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