Homo heidelbergensis

Translingual

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Home heidelbergensis m

A taxonomic species within the family Homo – Heidelberg man, an ancestor of the Neanderthal.

Hypernyms

(species): Primates - order; Haplorhini - suborder; Simiiformes - infraorder; Catarrhini - parvorder; Hominoidea - superfamily; Hominidae - family; Homininae - subfamily; Hominini - tribe; Hominina - subtribe; Homo - genus

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