antecessor

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These include remains assigned to Homo erectus as well as Homo antecessor, a distinct species, with both dated to around one million years ago.

From Science Daily • Dec. 16, 2025

Patterns of bone-breakage in Homo antecessor, considered the last common ancestor of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens, suggest that cannibalism goes back a half-million years or more.

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2023

They said it’s possible the items were produced by Homo antecessor, the hominin species dating from that period in other parts of Europe.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 2, 2023

“There is an archaic human population with facial morphology that resembles modern humans in many ways, and it is a lot older than Jebel Irhoud,” he says of H. antecessor.

From Scientific American • Jun. 8, 2017

I: "Paracletus solus antecessor, quia solus post Christum;" 2: "Eas ego ecclesias proposui, quas et ipsi apostolici viri condiderunt, et puto ante quosdam;" 3: "Sed nec inter consuetudines dispicere voluerunt illi sanctissimi antecessores."

From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil