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Homo Heidelbergensis: The Tool To Our Success, Alexander Burkard
Homo Heidelbergensis: The Tool To Our Success, Alexander Burkard
AUCTUS: The Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship
Homo heidelbergensis, a physiological variant of the species Homo sapien, is an extinct species that existed in both Europe and parts of Asia from 700,000 years ago to roughly 300,000 years ago (carbon dating). This “subspecies” of Homo sapiens, as it is formally classified, is a direct ancestor of anatomically modern humans, and is understood to have many of the same physiological characteristics as those of anatomically modern humans while still expressing many of the same physiological attributes of Homo erectus, an earlier human ancestor. Since Homo heidelbergensis represents attributes of both species, it has therefore earned the classification as …