Definition of Heidelberg man

1. Noun. A type of primitive man who lived in Europe.

Exact synonyms: Homo Heidelbergensis
Generic synonyms: Primitive, Primitive Person

Lexicographical Neighbors of Heidelberg Man

Hegar's dilators
Hegel
Hegelese
Hegelian
Hegglin
Hegglin's anomaly
Hegglin's syndrome
Hegira
Hehe
Hehner
Hehner number
Hehner value
Heidegger
Heideggerian
Heidelberg man
Heidelberger curve
Heidenhain
Heidenhain's azan stain
Heidenhain's crescents
Heidenhain's demilunes
Heidenhain's iron haematoxylin stain
Heidenhain's law
Heidi
Heihe
Heilbronner
Heilong Jiang
Heilongjiang
Heilsgeschichte
Heim

Literary usage of Heidelberg man

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Introduction to the Study of Social Evolution: The Prehistoric Period by Francis Stuart Chapin (1913)
"This is borne out by the fact that the teeth of the heidelberg man are in their stage of ... Comparison of Jaw of Modern Man with Jaw of heidelberg man and ..."

2. World-power and Evolution by Ellsworth. Huntington (1919)
"Others lengthen the time to half a million years, but at any rate the Heidelberg man seems to have lived only about half as long ago as the ape-man of Java. ..."

3. The Evolution of Man: A Series of Lectures Delivered Before the Yale Chapter by Richard Swann Lull, Harry Burr Ferris, George Howard Parker, James Rowland Angell, Albert Galloway Keller, Edwin Grant Conklin (1922)
"The body of the jaw is not unlike that of the successor of heidelberg man, the Neandertal race, but the ascending branch which gave attachment for the ..."

4. Men of the Old Stone Age: Their Environment, Life and Art by Henry Fairfield Osborn (1915)
"Firs(. interglacial Stage, and a similar opinion (Aurochs, urus). mammals and the heidelberg man to the Ljon has recently been expressed by Geikie. ..."

5. What comes from what, or, The relationships of animals and plants by Charles L. Abbott (1922)
"It is doubtful whether Neanderthal man and Piltdown man were direct descendants of heidelberg man. Perhaps they are offshoots from a point on the line ..."

6. Principles of Animal Biology by Aaron Franklin Shull, George Roger Larue, Alexander Grant Ruthven (1920)
"Homo heidelbergensis, the heidelberg man, is represented only by a lower jaw ... The restorations of Pithecanthropus and the heidelberg man are somewhat ..."

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