Homo heidelbergensis

Translingual

Etymology

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

Proper noun

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.

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