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> Humans are specifically and exclusively the species Homo Sapiens. Says who? I wasn't aware of "human" being a term of art in evolutionary biology. Though I

• didibus 6y ago
  > Says who? In this context, the taxonomy used is this one: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_nomenclature https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_nomenclature In that taxonomy, Human refers to the species of Homo sapiens. Wikipedia list the classification for it pretty well under the "Scientific classification" header: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human Until very recently, it was presumpted that modern humans (me and you) came exclusively from the Homo Sapiens specie. > Though I do seem to recall all sorts of hominids being called "early humans" in my elementary and middle school texts Yes sometimes Human could refer to the genus Homo instead of the species Homo Sapiens. Which is where people will say modern human/early human to disambiguate. But what is novel is that modern humans might not actually be Homo Sapiens, but hybrids of different species from the genus of Homo, such as Homo Neanderthalensis. This has been shown in 2010 thorough novel DNA evidence from modern human DNA. And this article just now shows that we found a teeth with hybrid characteristics. Even more interesting, not every modern human have Homo Neanderthalensis DNA in them. All of this is new development, and there's still much we don't know.
  • bashinator 6y ago
    You realize you just quoted state of the art for the 1700s (WRT nomenclature)?