Homo heidelbergensis
Translingual
Etymology
Homo + Latin Heidelbergēnsis, after the German city Heidelberg near which a mandibule of that species was discovered.
Proper noun
- 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
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