Some people may hear species names of Homo, that they mignt find confusing, so I have described them here. Many of these names for Homo are rarely used, and use of them can be interchangable between a species, a subspecies of erectus or a subspecies of sapiens. All these forms appear to be closer to us than to Asian erectus, but I have excluded moderns and neanderthals. Often soloensis, rhodesiensis and especially heidelbergensis are used to cover various, archaic forms, and the name "Homo sapiens archaicus" is used in a similar way. At least some of these show multiregionalism with each other, just as modern races interbreed. Since I am doing this list to help understand modern racial origins, I have not listed true Asian erectus (SNG, ZKD etc) or the early African Homo. I may be unaware of other names for these hominids.
helmei (Florisbad) Dreyer 1935
idaltu (Herto) White et al 2003
antecessor (Gran Dolina level TD6) Bermudez de Castro et al 1997
lantianensis or gongwanglingensis (Gongwangling) Wu/Woo 1964
daliensis (Dali) Wu Xinzhi 1981
mauretanicus (Ternefine) Arambourg 1954
tautavelensis (Arago) de Lumley and de Lumley 1979
paleohungaricus (Vertesszolos) Thoma 1966
steinheimensis (Steinheim) Berckhemer 1934
bilzingslebensis (Bilzingsleben) Vlcek 1978
petraloniensis (Petralona) Poulianos 1967
heidelbergensis (Mauer) Schoetensack 1908
soloensis (Ngangdong) Oppenoort 1932
narmadensis (Narmada) Sonakia 1984
rhodesiensis (Kabwe) Woodward 1921
palestinus (Qafzeh) McCown and Keith 1932
njarensis (Eyasi) Reck and Kohl-Larsen 1936
kanamensis (Kanam) Leakey 1935
caprensis (Ceprano) Callegni et al 2003
reilingensis (Reilingen) Czarnetski 1989
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