Homo heidelbergensis
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Translingual
Etymology
Homo + Latin Heidelbergēnsis, after the German city Heidelberg near which a mandibule of that species was discovered.
Proper noun
- 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.
Hypernyms
- (species): Primates – order; Haplorhini – suborder; Simiiformes – infraorder; Catarrhini – parvorder; Hominoidea – superfamily; Hominidae – family; Homininae – subfamily; Hominini – tribe; Hominina – subtribe; Homo – genus
Coordinate terms
- (species): Homo antecessor
References
Homo heidelbergensis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Homo heidelbergensis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Homo heidelbergensis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
