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Title should probably be "Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens lived side by side..."
by rippeltippel 3y ago
Title should probably be "Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens lived side by side..."
- ceejayoz 3y agoI think the contextual clues are enough to correctly interpret the current wording.
- genman 3y agoFor the informed reader. But it also implies that perhaps Neanderthals were not human, which is completely false.
- pbj1968 3y agoImagine being triggered by people assuming someone’s species.
- genman 3y agoNot sure what is your angle here, but Neanderthal are considered to be "archaic humans" and while it is not technically wrong to write "humans" instead of Homo sapiens then it would be more correct in this context to be more specific and write "modern humans" in my personal opinion.
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- peoplefromibiza 3y ago> "Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens and Homo sapiens sapiens Neanderthals are Homo sapiens neanderthalensis
- AlotOfReading 3y agoDepends on which naming convention you subscribe to. Most people just use H. neanderthalensis for convenience rather than writing out H. s. n. since everyone knows what they mean either way. Neither classification is obviously correct either, hence the introduction of more nuanced categories like "allotaxa" that aren't reflected in binomial nomenclature (yet?).