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Homo Heidelbergensis
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Homo Heidelbergensis
A hominid species that lived about 500,000 years ago and is thought to have been the first hominid to leave Africa; H heidelbergensis used tools and hunted, but showed no signs of making art, jewelry or other signs of abstract thought. He is regarded as the direct ancestor of Homo neanderthalensis in Europe and Homo sapiens


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antecessor later trekked to Europe, where it was ancestral to a German species known as H.
Comparison of the shape and size of the bones to those of other hominid specimens indicates that the Spanish site was inhabited either by an early form of H.
erectus, Stringer asserts, as well as a theory that a few European and African skulls fall within another species, H.
 
 
 
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