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Merge to Homo heidelbergensis

Although I called for possible mergers on Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Primates/category_rework, I'm not sure this is a merger I'd support. Mikko's phlogeny page supports them being distinct. - UtherSRG (talk) 11:10, 16 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I know, they're distinct species. Ucucha (talk) 06:45, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The primary reference indicates that the age given here as 780 ka for TD6 may in fact be substantially older perhaps OIS 20 (c. 857 Ka)(Falguères et al., 1999:351). Derek Wood

Do you have a full citation for Falguères ? - UtherSRG (talk) 11:43, 30 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cannibalism

'At the site were numerous examples of cuts on the bones, which indicates that H. antecessor could have practised cannibalism.' - changed from 'could have been victim of cannibalism'

Someone in the page history argued that H. antecessor was the victim of cannibalism but may not have been the predator. Is is then cannibalism? I think not. 84.13.171.245 01:39, 12 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Why the ambiguity? The bones had been defleshed with stone tools and the long bones had been smashed open to extract marrow. The remains were found along with other detritus of human occupation. Since there are no suggestions of ritual behavior in human populations this ancient it would be difficult to argue that these people were not eaten by people. Jamrifis (talk) 16:11, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

They were most definitely eaten by people. But were they eaten by people of the same species, Homo antecessor? Does it count as "cannibalism", if not? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.122.106.48 (talk) 22:19, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Falgueres et al. 1999 report has the H. Antecessor remains excavated from the oldest context (Gran Dolina TD6) giving a date between 790 and 857 kya. This is one of the earliest dates going for any Homo remains in Europe, putting the chances of a different species eating them pretty low. Anyone know anything more recent about this project? --Charles Ward (talk) 05:56, 15 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ancestor To Modern Humans?

I'd like that somebody expert looks at the claim that Antecessor and Heidelbergensis are possible ancestors of homo sapiens (a claim that the funding-hungry scientists in charge of the Atapuerca digs make every other day, leaving little room to doubt). There appears to be a contradiction with the scientific consensus that the sapiens sapiens didn't leave Africa until 200,000 BP. If true, how come these European hominids have anything to do with us? Aussiesta (talk) 08:59, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Many but not all scientists believe humans originated in Africa see Multiregional origin of modern humans for more information in a multiregional scenario homo sapiens could have evolved from Antecessor and Heidelbergensis also scientists who believe the Out of Africa Hypothesis say that homo sapiens migrated out of Africa around 80,000 BP not 200,000 BP.--Fang 23 (talk) 11:32, 5 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Exactly. Most scientists, right? Including pretty much every expert in human genome, and some who go as low as the 50,000 BP year. Then, shouldn't this article say that? That, as far as the scientific consensus goes (and it's wrong very often, we know that), the Homo Antecessor antecedes no living being, and was probably an ancestor of an extinct line of big humanoids? The way it goes now, one gets the impression that the average expert has no objection to the claim that modern Europeans (and white North Americans, white Australians, etc) descend from some humanoids who once lived in Burgos these many hundreds of thousands of years ago. Which I take to be a minority position, isn't it? Just checking that I got it right... Aussiesta (talk) 14:11, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In line with my previous objections, I removed a tentative, unsourced line suggesting a genetic tie with modern humans. Aussiesta (talk) 03:00, 31 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

H. antecessor may be the ancestor of H. heidelbergensis, which may be the ancestor of H. Neanderthalensis. H. sapiens seems to have arisen from African H. heidelbergensis (H. rhodesiensis) via H. helmei, but H. rhodesiensis may have evolved from H. ergaster (the supposed ancestor of H. antecessor) thereby supposedly excluding H. antecessor from modern human ancestry, but it has now been shown (2010) that non-African people have as much as 2% Neanderthal ancestory. If this is true and H. antecessor is the ancestor of H. neanderthalensis - then H. antecessor is at least partially ancestral to modern Europeans (and white North Americans, white Australians, etc), and also to Papuans, Polynesians, Japanese, red North Americans and even Egyptians (as they are mostly of non-African origin). It has been estimated that the split between H. neanderthalensis and H. sapiens happened around 500 000 years ago, but genetic dating is still questionable. Michaelwild (talk) 15:37, 9 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, there are many statements and suggestions here which are either a) untested and with no empirical support at all and/or b) not attributed to any published source. It is not for us to put our ideas in, but we might point out that much of this speculative content is not supported by evidence. Or we could edit out the speculations: we're supposed to be an encyclopedia... Macdonald-ross (talk) 12:59, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ceprano Skull

Why is not the skull from Ceprano (Italy) considered H. antecessor anymore? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.26.120.40 (talk) 18:57, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Dates do not match

A 2013 DNA analysis from a 400,000-year-old femur from Spain's Sima de los Huesos in the Atapuerca Mountains – the oldest hominin sequence yet published – I do not understand this statement (400,000 which is outside the range defining H. antecessor in this page. Renebach (talk) 12:42, 22 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yes! Nor can the 800 kya Happisburgh footprints have been made by H. antecessor if H. antecessor was ancestral to Neanderthals and if Neanderthals and moderns diverged in Africa 631-789 kya (Beerli & Edwards 2002), or 465-569 kya (Pääbo et al - 2006) or 447–806 kya (Mendez et al - 2016). Laetoli (talk) 14:24, 17 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Your logic is valid, but you've got a few things backward. H. antessesor is the name attributed to the earliest known humans in western Europe. By definition. Whether or not Neanderthals are their descendents is pure speculation. Also, with regards to dates - be aware that any dates that pertain to when group A split off from group B, based on genetics, is the least reliable of dating methods, because at this point scientists are still just making their best guesses. but the dates are constantly being revised, and nearly all of said revisions are to older dates rather than younger ones. Firejuggler86 (talk) 01:49, 29 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Reviewer: Some Dude From North Carolina (talk · contribs) 00:49, 27 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Add WP:ALT text to every image.

unnecessary in this case because the alt would read exactly like the captions User:Dunkleosteus77 |push to talk 03:52, 28 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"cheek bone" should be written as one word.

done

Add a hyphen between "best preserved".

done User:Dunkleosteus77 |push to talk 03:52, 28 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Add hyphens between "25 year old", "million year old", and "11.5 year old".

I don't like hyphens being used like that, my brain gets confused User:Dunkleosteus77 |push to talk 03:52, 28 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Try removing the overuse of the word "like".

because anatomy is hard to grasp, diversifying the vocabulary may make it more confusing User:Dunkleosteus77 |push to talk 17:23, 28 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"presumably to access to the" → "presumably to access the"

done User:Dunkleosteus77 |push to talk 17:23, 28 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Add a comma after "Similarly".

done User:Dunkleosteus77 |push to talk 17:23, 28 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ping when done. Some Dude From North Carolina (talk) 19:50, 27 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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