heidelbergensis

If you're referring to Homo heidelbergensis, I believe the jury is still out on that.

It took 700 million years of metazoan evolution to get to Homo heidelbergensis, our likely ancestral species.

Neanderthals diverged from homo heidelbergensis around half a million years ago, and modern humans did as well, though later.

There's also a hundred other classifications, some giving neanderthals their own species, others including it with heidelbergensis, and so on.

The oldest known Homo Heidelbergensis is maybe 1 millions years old and most of the early Homo Heidelbergensis were found in Europe, so it is assumed that Homo Heidelbergensis evolved in Europe.

One interesting point is that Homo heidelbergensis was more closely related to neanderthals than to us.

The common ancestor of sapiens and neanderthals was probably around 500,000 years, probably heidelbergensis.

It's like how we had neanderthals, denisovans and homo sapiens and homo heidelbergensis all on this planet at one point.

Homo heidelbergensis is the common ancestor between modern humans and Neanderthals.

And who knows what sort of beds homo heidelbergensis slept in?

No, Homo sapiens sapiens did not exist yet, but Homo Erectus would have been around then and possibly Homo heidelbergensis (who gave rise to Neanderthals).

Previously, Middle Pleistocene hominins, whether Homo heidelbergensis or early Neanderthals, were regarded as simple beings without language who acquired meat by scavenging other carnivore kills or natural deaths.

Most likely even Heidelbergensis had "complex grunting" and hand signs so humans in the neolithic are effectively identical to us in language capability.

If you said to me "Homo heidelbergensis" I wouldn't know that was a species of pre-historic human, but I would feel pretty comfortable making that kind of leap.

The discovery of the hand ax suggests that people besides technologically modern humans—possibly Homo heidelbergensis—island-hopped across the Mediterranean tens of thousands of millennia earlier than expected." I'm getting really worn out by some commenters here.

Helping others is something that we did for very long long time "The third stage, based on findings from Europe between around 500,000 and 40,000 years ago, sees humans such as Homo heidelbergensis and Neanderthals developing deep-seated commitments to the welfare of others illustrated by a long adolescence and a dependence on hunting together.

All of them, Erectus, Heidelbergensis, Neanderthals, Denisovans and Sapiens were walking around at the same time.

Heidelbergensis is the last common anscestor of Neanderthals, Denisovans and us.

Neanderthals from 400kya are often classed as Heidelbergensis.