[Taxacom] Homo sapiens

[John Grehan]

Not in the extant populations, but there have been challenges when dealing
with fossils at times.

John Grehan

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Michael A. Ivie <mivie at montana.edu> wrote:

> The history of defining extant Homo sapiens is a sad one, one that
> taxonomy does well to forget.  It has mostly been the preview of racists
> trying to subdivide humanity to support some superior race theory or
> other.  The Germans did some of this during the Nazi era, and others during
> colonial and slave periods. Not really something to delve into.  There is
> no taxonomic confusion on who is human and who is not in the extant
> population, so such a redescription is not necessary.
>
> On 1/13/2016 4:18 PM, Doug Yanega wrote:
>
>> On 1/13/16 3:04 PM, Thomas McCabe wrote:
>>
>>> More recent publications of
>>> primate taxonomy in English available to me refer to Linneaus’
>>> definition.
>>> Can anyone direct me to a more recent formal revision?
>>>
>>> Most species, including our own, have no "formal" description outside of
>> the original description. Given that we've only got descriptions for fewer
>> than 2 million of the 10-50 million extant species, we've got a lot of work
>> yet to do before we can go around re-describing things a second time. ;-)
>>
>> That being said, if you were to examine the descriptions, in the
>> paleonotological literature, of *other species* in the genus Homo, you are
>> likely to find that when those other species are diagnosed, the authors may
>> have listed certain features in explicit contrast with the same features as
>> they appear in H. sapiens - you could accumulate a number of formal
>> characters used to recognize H. sapiens, in this manner.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>>
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