Homo heidelbergensis

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Etymology

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Homo + Latin Heidelbergēnsis, after the German city Heidelberg near which a mandibule of that species was discovered.

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Homo heidelbergensis m

  1. A taxonomic species within the family Homo – Heidelberg man, thought to be ancestral to Homo neanderthalensis, the Denisovans, and Homo sapiens, and descended from early Homo erectus.

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