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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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But just because our microbiome differs from our ancestors' doesn't mean reverting to an earlier model is better.
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The range of Pennsylvania Dutch vocabulary reflects the immediate, physical nature of my ancestors’ lives and work.
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In her account, Richmond indeed emerges as its progenitor—through his theorizing, his behind-the-scenes parliamentary and polemical maneuvering, and his patronage of Thomas Paine.
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Watching their metronomic thriller does more to suggest the arrival of a hyper-sexualized answer to the Coen brothers than the progeny of William Gibson or the progenitors of multiplex psychedelia.
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Both my grandfathers had been coal miners.
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Her grandfather was able to escape and later fought against the Nazis in the Russian army.
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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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Eight Dukes of Wellington and two very full centuries on from that 1825 procession, on this June 16, the 9th Duke rode, as each of his forbears did and as the future heirs to the ducal title will do, in the lead carriage with the king to open Royal Ascot.
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The historic European Protestant traditions that were the forebears of the American church placed great emphasis on learning and on doctrine, but the result was a faith that tended to be aristocratic and élitist.
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After leaving Alabama, Avinger served a year in the U.S. Army, then signed for a season with the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Western Interprovincial Football Union, one of the forebearers of the Canadian Football League.
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Like its classic-rock forebearer Desert Trip, the concert will bring two acts per night to Indio’s Empire Polo Club, on the weekend of Oct. 6-8.
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“Antecessor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antecessor. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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