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Homo heidelbergensis (also H. erectus heidelbergensis, [1] H. sapiens heidelbergensis [2]) is an extinct species or subspecies of archaic human which existed from around 600,000 to 300,000 years ago, during the Middle Pleistocene.
Solidified footprints dated to about 350 ka and associated with H. heidelbergensis were found in southern Italy in 2003. [49] H. sapiens lost the brow ridges from their hominid ancestors as well as the snout completely, though their noses evolve to be protruding (possibly from the time of H. erectus). By 200 ka, humans had stopped their brain ...
Homo heidelbergensis or Homo erectus: 1976 Ethiopia: A. Asfaw: Benjamina [65] [66] 0.53 Homo neanderthalensis [67] 2001-2001 Spain: Ana Gracia Téllez Mauer 1 (Heidelberg Man) 0.50 Homo heidelbergensis: 1907 Germany: Daniel Hartmann Heidelberg University: Saldanha man [68] 0.50 Homo rhodesiensis: 1953 South Africa: Boxgrove Man: 0.50 [69] Homo ...
Arising in Europe at least 400,000 years ago, the Neanderthal hominids (a descendant of Homo heidelbergensis) would become more stable residents of the continent, until H. sapiens would arrive about 50,000 years ago, leading to the extinction of the Neanderthals about 37,000 years ago.
H. heidelbergensis is closely related to Homo rhodesiensis (also identified as Homo heidelbergensis sensu lato or African H. heidelbergensis), known to be present in southern Africa by 0.3 Ma. Homo sapiens emerges in Africa before about 0.3 Ma from a lineage closely related to early H. heidelbergensis. [29]
H. heidelbergensis early H. neanderthalensis: 600–300 [h] Europe, Africa 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) 90 kg (200 lb) 1,100–1,400 Many 1907 1908 H. cepranensis a single fossil, possibly H. heidelbergensis: c. 450 [32] Italy: 1,000 1 skull cap 1994 2003 H. longi: 309–138 [33] Northeast China 1,420 [34] 1 individual 1933 2021 H. rhodesiensis early H ...
These are proposed as species intermediate between H. erectus and H. heidelbergensis. H. antecessor is known from fossils from Spain and England that are dated 1.2 Ma–500 ka. [74] [75] H. cepranensis refers to a single skull cap from Italy, estimated to be about 800,000 years old. [76]
Late forms of H. erectus are thought to have survived until after about 0.5 million ago to 143,000 years ago at the latest, [note 3] with derived forms classified as H. antecessor in Europe around 800,000 years ago and H. heidelbergensis in Africa around 600,000 years ago.