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IDEA.org / Words / human ancestor
Related — primate (Higher mammal order member); ape (Tailless higher primate); hominid (Bipedal primate family); Neanderthal · caveman · fossil · skull · bones · Lucy · evolution · upright · walking · tools
temporal direction in lineagehuman ancestor ≠ progeny One's biological descendants; posterity · heir · offspring · future generations · successor
evolutionary trajectoryhuman ancestor ≠ posthuman Beyond human limitations; Homo sapiens · modern human · transhuman
relatedness to humanshuman ancestor ≠ alien species Non-indigenous life form
Early Humans: Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon, Homo erectus, Homo sapiens, Australopithecus
Word data: Linguabase (CC0) · www.idea.org/words/human_ancestor