among Neanderthals and Homo sapiens is likely also derived from Homo heidelbergensis. Richard Fortey nicely sums it up: “The tendencies towards large brain size were carried further, while the social habits, tool-making, and all the paraphernalia attached to hunting and gathering tribes were added piece by piece until you could say of the creature standing before you: ecce homo.”11 Adam, then, may be plausibly identified as a member of Homo heidelbergensis, living perhaps >750 kya. He could even