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Recent Examples of antecessor
Like Homo antecessor, the Casablanca fossils have a mix of characteristics from Homo erectus, ourselves and our cousins.
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CBS News,
8 Jan. 2026
The team theorizes that the unknown species arrived in Western Europe before H. antecessor, but that the two species probably overlapped.
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Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 Mar. 2025
But while Pink’s remains don’t match its more modern H. antecessor relatives, researchers stopped short of identifying them as belonging to the H. erectus family.
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Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
12 Mar. 2025
Though, a protein analysis of the 800,000-year-old tooth enamel of a H. antecessor published last year lends his theory credence.
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Connor Lynch,
Discover Magazine,
17 Dec. 2021
The physical features of H. antecessor have left anthropologists puzzling over its relationships with other early humans.
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Michael Price,
Science | AAAS,
1 Apr. 2020
CBS News,
8 Jan. 2026
The team theorizes that the unknown species arrived in Western Europe before H. antecessor, but that the two species probably overlapped.
—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 Mar. 2025
But while Pink’s remains don’t match its more modern H. antecessor relatives, researchers stopped short of identifying them as belonging to the H. erectus family.
—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
12 Mar. 2025
Though, a protein analysis of the 800,000-year-old tooth enamel of a H. antecessor published last year lends his theory credence.
—
Connor Lynch,
Discover Magazine,
17 Dec. 2021
The physical features of H. antecessor have left anthropologists puzzling over its relationships with other early humans.
—
Michael Price,
Science | AAAS,
1 Apr. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for antecessor
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The film, based on Thomas Perry’s novel Strip, wears its influences — ranging from Elmore Leonard to Carl Hiaasen to Quentin Tarantino — heavily, without the genuine wit of many of its predecessors.
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During more than 50 years as a member of the EU and its predecessors, many British businesses also came to rely on Europe as a source of cheap labor, especially after the bloc’s eastward expansion in 2004.
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Kean comes from a long line of public servants, stretching 250 years to the country’s founding when one of his ancestors became New Jersey’s first leader since independence.
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One of these is likely the evolutionary ancestor of all that is to come.
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Yet that same year, Brynjolfsson got access to GPT-3, a progenitor of ChatGPT.
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But this follow-up earned less than one third of its progenitor's domestic opening take of $125 million.
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In 1926, Brian's great-grandfather, Henry Knoebel, opened a pool that would mark the official start of the family’s park.
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The supplies will be taken to Miami and then Venezuela by Olarte Transport, said volunteer Andrea Casanova, 28, whose grandfather was in Venezuela when the earthquakes struck.
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Like its forefather, the Barreda Mary Janes have three stripes, a low profile, and a round toe.
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Kelly was one of the most prominent Black fashion designers of the 1980s, and his peers included Willi Smith, known as a forefather of modern-day streetwear, and Dapper Dan, a beloved auteur of hip-hop haberdashery.
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For anyone wanting to see or experience the sites and vestiges of Miami’s ancient inhabitants, the people known as Tequesta and their even more enigmatic Archaic forebears, there are only a few places to go.
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For 17 generations, Wietse Van Der Werf’s forebears toiled as dockworkers, shipbuilders, and sea captains in the Netherlands and its colonies.
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Mike Brown said the digital driver license is the forebearer of discriminating against the unvaccinated.
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If successful, The Mayflower Autonomous Ship, named in honor of its famous nautical forebearer and known as MAS for short, will be the first such trans-Atlantic voyage by an autonomous vessel.
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“Antecessor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antecessor. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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