Homo sapiens idaltu
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| Archaic Humans Temporal range: Pleistocene |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Family: | Hominidae |
| Subfamily: | Homininae |
| Genus: | Homo |
| Species: | H. sapiens |
| Subspecies: | H. s. idaltu |
| Trinomial name | |
| †Homo sapiens idaltu White et al., 2003 |
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Homo sapiens idaltu is an extinct subspecies of Homo sapiens. They lived almost 160,000 years ago in Africa during the Pleistocene period. Idaltu is the Afar word for "elder, first born".
