How Did Homo Heidelbergensis Get Its Name?
How Did Homo Heidelbergensis Get Its Name? Homo heidelbergensis means ‘Heidelberg Man‘. Homo, is the Latin word for ‘human’ or ‘man’ and heidelbergensis is the latinised word for ‘Heidelberg’, the city in Germany where the first Homo heidelbergensis fossil was discovered in 1907. Why is it called Homo heidelbergensis? Homo heidelbergensis was named for a