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Human is specifically Homo Sapiens. The rest of the Homo genus, be they ancestors or not, are not recognized as human.
Considering the fact that we interbred with H. neanderthalensis and H. denisova (and still carry the residual DNA to prove it), I think it's pretty well proven that considering only H. sapiens to be "human" is overly narrow.
Personally, I would argue that anything within the Homo genus is human by definition (that's what the word means!), and that anything non-human belongs in a genus like Australopithecus or Paranthropus instead.
Nope. There are modern humans (homo sapiens) and archaic humans (extinct homo species).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaic_humans
That's not entirely accurate anymore.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-is-homo-sapiens-the-sole-surviving-member-of-the-human-family/