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