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Taxon: Genus Homo Linnaeus, 1758 - people (mammal)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  C. Linnaeus, 1758
Unavailable original name & rank:  Linnaeus, C. 1735. Syst. Nat. [ed. 1]: [10].
Original name, rank & spelling:  Linnaeus, C. 1758. Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1: 20. ≡

Types

Type of: Hominidae (Family) Gray, 1825 Ref: E. Delson et al. (eds.), 2000: xxvi. [inferred]
Type of: Hominina (Subtribe) Gray, 1825
Type of: Homininae (Subfamily) Gray, 1825 Ref: E. Delson et al. (eds.), 2000: xxvi. [inferred]
Type of: Hominini (Tribe) Gray, 1825 Ref: E. Delson et al. (eds.), 2000: xxvi. [inferred]
Type of: Hominoidea (Superfamily) Gray, 1825 Ref: E. Delson et al. (eds.), 2000: xxvi. [inferred]
Type, by original designation: Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758

Variants

Unavailable name: Homo (Genus) nom. inval.

Synonyms

Synonymous name: †Hemianthropus (Genus) Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997
Synonymous name: †Kenyanthropus (Genus) (M.G. Leakey et al., 2001) Ref: PBDB: 30 Apr 2013.
Synonymous name: Protanthropus (Genus) Haeckel, 1895 Ref: PBDB: 30 Apr 2013.
Including: †Africanthropus (Genus) Weinert, 1938, nom. illeg.
Including: †Atlanthropus (Genus) Arambourg, 1954
Including: †Cyphanthropus (Genus) Pycraft, 1928
Including: †Meganthropus (Genus) Weidenreich, 1944 Ref: 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) Coppens, 1965
Including: †Telanthropus (Genus) Broom & Robinson, 1949

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full name: mensen

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: people
: human beings
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