Classical element to use the term "element (στοιχεῖον, "stoicheion")" in reference to air, fire, earth, and water. The ancient Greek word for element, "stoicheion" (from "stoicheo", "to line up") meant "smallest division (of a sun-dial), a syllable", as the composing unit of an alphabet it could denote a letter and the smallest unit from which a word is formed. A similar alphabetic metaphor may be the origin of the equivalent Latin word "elementum" (from which the English word comes), possibly based on the names of the letters 'l', 'm', and 'n', though the validity of this idea is debated. In his "On
Archaic humans of over 120 individuals. Dunbar argues that it was not possible for hominins to live in such large groups without using language, otherwise there could be no group cohesion and the group would disintegrate. By comparison, chimpanzees live in smaller groups of up to 50 individuals. Archaic humans A number of varieties of "Homo" are grouped into the broad category of archaic humans in the period contemporary to and predating the emergence of the earliest anatomically modern humans ("Homo sapiens") over 315 ka. The term typically includes "Homo neanderthalensis" (430+–38ka), "Denisovans", "Homo rhodesiensis" (300ka–125ka), "Homo heidelbergensis" (600ka–200ka), and "Homo antecessor".