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Heidelberg man

–noun
the primitive human being reconstructed from the Heidelberg jaw.

Origin:
1925–30
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Heidelberg man  
n.  An early member of an extinct human species, considered closely related to Homo erectus, known primarily from a fossil jawbone found near Heidelberg, West Germany, in 1907.
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