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Anthropology Homo Species
I am working on a paper for anthropology and i am confused. Is the species "Homo" its own species or is just sort of the umbrella that Homo erectus, homo sapien, and modern humans fall under?
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not to be a dick, I agree with the rest of it, but the correct scientific name for humans is "homo sapiens sapiens" there's another species called homo sapiens neanderthal, and I'm sure you've heard of them.
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It’s an umbrella, sort of like a family. In biology, those sorts of umbrellas are call a GENUS.
Homo is the genus, and Homo Sapiens, is a species within that genus.
So all ‘Homo’ belong to the same genus, but each kind is its own distinct species.
Look up genus if you’d like, biology terms can get very confusing, because species branch off one another and each of those branches get names. I think it’s pretty cool all told.
(Just so you aren't confused: Modern humans ARE homo sapiens. Period. Humans aren't another species under the 'homo' umbrella, it's just a non-science word for the species homo sapiens.)
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