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Under construction Taxon: Genus Homo Linnaeus, 1758 - people
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Unavailable original nameLinnaeus, C. 1735. Lugduni Batavorum, Apud Theodorum Haak..: [10]
Unavailable original rank
Original nameLinnaeus, C. 1758. Syst. nat., ed. 10. 1..: 20
Original rank
Original spelling

Types

Type ofHominina (Subtribe) (Gray, 1825) Delson & P. Andrews, in Luckett & Szalay, eds., 1975
Type, by original designationHomo sapiens C. Linnaeus, 1758

Variants

Unavailable nameHomo (Genus) nom. inval.

Synonyms

Synonym†Hemianthropus (Genus)[M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997]
Including†Africanthropus (Genus) Weinert, 1938, nom. praeocc.
Including†Atlanthropus (Genus) Arambourg, 1954
Including†Cyphanthropus (Genus) Pycraft, 1928
Including†Meganthropus (Genus)[M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997]
Including†Palaeoanthropus (Genus) Bonarelli, 1910
Including†Pithecanthropus (Genus) Dubois, 1894
Including†Sinanthropus (Genus) Black, 1927
Including†Tchadanthropus (Genus)
Including†Telanthropus (Genus) Broom & Robinson, 1949

Taxonomic positions

Original positionPrimates (Order) C. Linnaeus, 1758
Subsequent positionHominina (Subtribe) (Gray, 1825) Delson & P. Andrews, in Luckett & Szalay, eds., 1975

Vernacular Names

Dutch:mensen
English:human beings; people

Number of Subtaxa

2013Available in Systema Naturae 20001s;1ss; †13s;7ss
1989-presentSystema Naturae 20001s;1ss; †13s
2005M.J. Benton[1s; †7s]
2005C.P. Groves[1s]
1993C.P. Groves[1s]
1991G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill[1s]
1982A.F. DeBlase1s
1766C. Linnaeus[3s;5v]
1758C. Linnaeus[3s;5v]
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