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Homo sapiens heidelbergensis

Homo heidelbergensis
Homo heidelbergensis

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See also Archaic Homo sapiens and Homo sapiens neanderthalensis

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See also Archaic Homo sapiens and Homo sapiens neanderthalensis

Homo sapiens

| Primates -- Contemporary | Primates -- Prehistoric | Hominids | Australopithecus |

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Genus

Species

Variety 

Alternative Name

Example

Homo

sapiens

heidelberg-
ensis

 

"Archaic"

Heidelberg, Steinheim, Swanscombe, Kabwe, etc.

Neanderthal-
ensis
?

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).

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