Although the fossils have been provisionally categorized by the team as H. erectus based on the presence of certain defining characteristics, he thinks the population represented by the Dmanisi hominids may have been more specifically the rootstock of the
Although the fossils have been provisionally categorized by the team as H. erectus based on the presence of certain defining characteristics, he thinks the population represented by the Dmanisi hominids may have been more specifically the rootstock of the
虽然研究团队根据德玛尼斯人表现的一些直立人定义特徵，暂时将他们归为直立人，但是洛基帕尼泽认为，德玛尼斯化石代表的族群，也许是直立人的始祖，正是直立人与巧人之间的缺环。