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

Homo antecessor is believed to have been the last common ancestor of modern humans and their extinct Neanderthal cousins, who diverged about 800,000 years ago.

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

It is unfortunate that we know so little about Thomas Arden, Mary Shakespeare's "antecessor."

From Shakespeare's Family by Stopes, C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael)