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The PEDIGREE of
Homo heidelbergensis
   Middle Paleolithic Era; Early Mousterian toolkit: core flaking, spearhead, wooden shelters

Born:  0.8 M BC    Died:  0.2 M BC

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 Children:         Homo neanderthalis   ;   Homo sapiens idaltu

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												/	-- Clade (P) Euarchonta   +							====> [ 61]
											/	-- Primates, Order (P) of
										/	-- Suborder of Anthropoid Primates
									/	-- Infraorder of Apes
								/	-- Superfamily of Great Apes
							/	-- Clade of Hominid & Gorilla
						/	-- Family of Hominids (Sahelanthropus tchadensis)
					/	-- prob.  Orrorin tugenensis  (6.3 M BC - ?)
				/	-- Ardipithecus kadabba  (5.5 M BC - ?)
			/	-- prob.  Ardepithecus ramidus  (4.7 M BC - ?)
		/	-- Australopithecus afarensis  (4.0 M BC - 2.9 M BC)
		/		| OR: Australopithecus africanus   +																====> [ 71]
	/	-- Homo habilis  (2.6 M BC - 1.9 M BC)
/	-- Homo erectus  (1.9 M BC - 0.4 M BC)
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- Homo heidelbergensis

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  ``2-Great Grandchildren:''        Man of the Chatelperronian toolkit   ;   Modern Man in Northern Asia   ;   First Speaker of Early Congo-Asian
  (poss.) ``5-Great Grandchildren:''        Man of the Gravettian toolkit   ;   First Speaker of Austric   ;   First Speaker of Congo-Nostratic
 

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