I was wrong.......it says here...............750 k...........but still.........the only ones over a million are from East Africa..................AND..................which is the more important part....................you can see the evolution in the same general region in East Africa........Ethiopia, Tanzania...........the Eastern part of the Congo river basin........Uganda, etc......
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peking_Man
Discovered in 1923–27 during excavations at Zhoukoudian (Chou K'ou-tien)
near Beijing (written "Peking" before the adoption of the Pinyin
romanization system), China, in 2009 this group of fossil specimens
dated from roughly 750,000 years ago, and a new 26Al/10Be dating suggests they are in the range of 680,000–780,000 ...
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Peking-man
Peking man, extinct hominin of the species Homo erectus,
known from fossils found at Zhoukoudian near Beijing. Peking man was
identified as a member of the human lineage by Davidson Black in 1927 on
the basis of a single tooth.
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