Homo heidelbergensis
Other researchers hold the contrary view that the evolutionary development in Africa and Europe was a gradual process from "Homo erectus" via the representative of the findings assigned to "Homo heidelbergensis" towards Neanderthal. Any form of segregation is considered arbitrary, which is why these researchers forgo the name "Homo heidelbergensis" altogether. They classify the Mauer 1 man as a late local (European) form of "Homo erectus".