09-21-2005, 10:06 AM
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Originally Posted by wyndhy
since we are homo sapiens now, and it is homo sapiens who classified us as such, and homo sapiens who also classifyied the other species that came before us in the genus homo, and if we manage to survive/evolve for several hundred millennia more, do you think we will re-name our own species? :dizzy:
ok.maybe more of a jack handy thought but i am reading this book and...  |
I seem to recall that homo sapien roughly means "same man" or "same as man"...inferring that the fossils they found are the same as modern humans...& also, we humans today are actually referred to as "homo sapiens sapiens"...not sure why doubling the word makes it different...
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