[Taxacom] Homo sapiens rhodesiensis (was "Is the Company..."

[John Grehan]

Actually the question was not from me. I have no opinion on the fossil as I
have not studied the pertinent literature.

John Grehan


On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 7:03 AM, Ken Kinman <kinman at hotmail.com> wrote:

> John Grehan asked:
>
>  While we on this what do you make of the Broken Hill skull? I have heard
> people beginning to say it might be a Neanderthal precursor?
>
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>
> Hi John,
>
>        I believe that the Broken Hill skull is the type specimen of Homo
> sapiens rhodesiensis.  It is more likely to be the ancestor (or sister
> group) of Homo sapiens idaltu and Homo sapiens sapiens.  The closely
> related Homo sapiens heidelbergensis is the likely ancestor of Homo sapiens
> neanderthalensis.  See my classification of genus Homo posted on Taxacom
> (in 2009) below.
>
>     1  Homo habilis%
>                    1  H. h. rudolfensis
>                    2  H. h. habilis
>                    3  {{H. erectus + H. sapiens}}
>
>   _a_ Homo erectus%
>                     1  H. e. georgicus
>                     ?  H. e. floresiensis ("hobbit")
>                     2  H. e. ergaster
>                     3  H. e. erectus
>                   _a_  {{Homo sapiens}}
>
>     _a_ Homo sapiens
>                     1  H. s. antecessor
>                     B  H. s. cepranensis
>                     2  H. s. heidelbergensis
>                   _a_  H. s. neanderthalensis
>                     3  H. s. rhodesiensis
>                     4  H. s. idaltu
>                     5  H. s. sapiens
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