What hominid/Hominin species immediately preceded or was contemporary with Homo sapiens sapiens?

1 Homo sapiens idaltu (~160,000 years ago) – A subspecies of Homo sapiens found in Ethiopia, considered an early anatomically modern human.

2 Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) (~400,000 to 40,000 years ago) – Coexisted with Homo sapiens in Eurasia and interbred with them.

3 Denisovans (a sister group to Neanderthals) – A mysterious hominin identified through DNA from fossils in Siberia and East Asia, also interbred with modern humans.

4 Homo heidelbergensis (~700,000 to 200,000 years ago) – Likely an ancestor of both Neanderthals and modern humans, with populations in Africa and Eurasia.

5 Homo floresiensis (~100,000 to 50,000 years ago) – A small hominin species from Indonesia, possibly coexisting with early modern humans.

6 Homo naledi (~335,000 to 236,000 years ago) – A South African species with a mix of archaic and modern traits, possibly overlapping with early Homo sapiens.

7 Homo erectus (~1.9 million to 100,000 years ago) – One of the longest-surviving hominin species, it may have persisted into the era of early Homo sapiens in some regions.