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Are we only calling Homo Sapiens human? Some how I got the idea that all of Homo was human.
by amanaplanacanal 3y ago
Are we only calling Homo Sapiens human? Some how I got the idea that all of Homo was human.
- wsgeorge 3y agoI had the opposite idea: colloquially, "human" is us, homo sapiens, and hominid would be our ancestors and closest relations.
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- escape_goat 3y agoThere was a shift in how the word 'hominid' was used around the 1990s, largely due to the introduction of genetic classification if I understand correctly. Hominids (humans and close ancestors) used to be considered distinct from Pongoids, which were basically all other great apes including chimpanzees and bonobos. That taxonomy was retired, and all great apes are now considered hominids.
- mcguire 3y agoThe Homoninid family tree has gotten fairly confusing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ape#Changes_in_taxonomy_and_terminology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ape#Changes_in_taxonomy_and_te... You will often see mention of Hominin (Homo and Pan (chimpanzees), I think) as well, where you would have once heard Hominid.
- mkl 3y agoHominin doesn't include chimpanzees, but all members of the human tree after the split from chimpanzees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominidae https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominidae
- mcguire 3y agoThanks! I couldn't remember the details and was trying to reconstruct it from the bio-Latin. :-)
- neovialogistics 3y agoAccording to an archeologist I know the preferred terminology for non-sapiens sapiens members of Homo is "Archaic Humans".