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sapiens from between 20,000 and 8,000 years ago, Neandertals, and two species unearthed at Spanish sites--Homo antecessor and Homo heidelbergensis--that date to about 800,000 and 500,000 years ago, respectively. Both Homo antecessor and Homo heidelbergensis shared with modern humans a prolonged pattern of dental maturation," Bermudez de Castro says. They assign the specimens to a new species, Homo antecessor, although other investigators go no further than placing them in the Homo line (SN: 5/31/97, p. |
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dere, to go before; see antecede.]