antecessor
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Some traits resemble hominins from Gran Dolina in Atapuerca, often referred to as Homo antecessor, raising the possibility of very early population connections between north-west Africa and southern Europe.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 7, 2026
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
The grantee stepped exactly into the place of the antecessor; he inherited all his rights and all his burthens.
From William the Conqueror by Edward Augustus Freeman
