Homo Heidelbergensis is a species of archaic humans in the genus Homo, which radiated in the Middle Pleistocene from about 700,000 to 300,000 years ago. The derivation of Cro-Magnons, and therefore, a modern man from H. rhodesiensis has often been proposed but is obscured by a fossil gap from 400–260 kya. Homo Helidelbergensis is a much more likely ancestor. They are also the ancestors of Neanderthals. They are the first humans to set foot into Europe, having arrived there from Africa and the Middle East.
Thought to have been extinct for 300,000 years, there are still some that remain alive on Primeval Island.