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Archaic Homo sapiens

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 Archaic Archaeological Stage
  Neandertals
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  Homo sapiens heidelbergensis

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Homo sapiens

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Genus

Species

Variety 

Alternative Name

Example

Homo

sapiens

heidelberg-
ensis

 

"Pre-Modern"
("Archaic")

Heidelberg, Steinheim, Swanscombe, Kabwe . . .

Neanderthal-
ensis
?
(Denisovans?)

Neandertal

"Hobbit"


sapiens
(prehistoric)

Prehistoric
"Early Moderns"

Cro-Magnon, Border Cave, Qafzeh, etc.

sapiens
(contemporary)

Contemporary
"Moderns"

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Special Case: Piltdown

Adapted from Intoduction to Physical Anthropology, 8th ed, Jurmain, Nelson, Kilgore, and Trevathan
(Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2000, pp. 285 - 290).

Archaic Homo sapiens

See also Neandertals and Homo sapiens heidelbergensis

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