Homo heidelbergensis

[ hoh-moh hahyd-l-ber-gen-sis ]

noun

1. an extinct species of the human lineage that lived between about 200,000 and 700,000 years ago, inhabiting Europe, eastern and southern Africa, and perhaps Asia: the first fossil specimen was discovered in a sandpit near Heidelberg, Germany, in 1907.
2. a fossil belonging to this species.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Homo heidelbergensis¹

From New Latin; Homo ( def ) + heidelbergēnsis “pertaining to Heidelberg”

Example Sentences

Taking the first group (Pithecanthropus and Homo heidelbergensis) it is to be noticed that close correlation is quite possible.

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Homo heidelbergensis appears to be directly ancestral to all the later Hominidæ.

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In a conservative spirit, Schoetensack named the type represented by this jaw Homo heidelbergensis.

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A predatory, omnivorous stage, with reduced canines and convergent tooth rows (cf. Homo heidelbergensis).

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