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

He notes the analysis by Hublin and his colleagues did not compare the Jebel Irhoud remains with fossils from Spain dating to more than 800,000 years ago that belong to a species called H. antecessor.

From Scientific American • Jun. 8, 2017

The grantee stepped exactly into the place of the antecessor; he inherited all his rights and all his burthens. 

From William the Conqueror by Freeman, Edward Augustus