I had some more comparisons between wildmen and fossil hominids. This set compares a representation of an Australian Yowie with Homo erectus, and the facial comparison also includes drawings of the skulls of an ape and a modern human.
In this case it is more likely that the suspect is what is usually known as Solo man, but unfortunately there is no facial material of Solo man. For that reason I have to use Homo erectus reference as next-best. Solo hominids are also called 'tropical neanderthals' and thus 'Archaic Homo sapiens' along with the regular neanderthals. So too are Heidelburg man and Rhodesian man (point of clarification here: the use of 'man' does not necessarily mean male in this traditional terminology; it is used as a neuter reference to the species, and this is one standard usage)
There have also been fossil finds in Australia that are extremly primitive by the standards of modern humans and which do match the Solo skullcaps. Some fossils indicate that the 'Robusts' were quite large, over six feet tall, with heavy bone structure, and there are also fossil footprints, some of which are also quite large.
This in line with Heuvelmans, who followed the classification of these fossils into Homo erectus. I consider the fossils to be Homo sapiens, but of an extremely crude level.
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