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Heidelberg man: see Homo erectus Homo erectus (hō`mō ērĕk`təs), extinct hominid living between 1.6 million and 250,000 years ago. ..... Click the link for more information. . Heidelberg man [′hīd·əl·bərg ‚man] (paleontology) An early type of European fossil man known from an isolated lower jaw; considered a variant ofHomo erectusor an early stock of Neanderthal man. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The fossils derive from Homo heidelbergensis, a species regarded by Martinez's team as ancestral to Neandertals but not to H. The hunters, called archaic Homo sapiens or Homo heidelbergensis, were distant ancestors of Neanderthals. Both Homo antecessor and Homo heidelbergensis shared with modern humans a prolonged pattern of dental maturation," Bermudez de Castro says. |
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