Homo
Homo
Homo (/ˈhoʊmoʊ/; Latin hominis, "human being") is the genus that encompasses the extant species Homo sapiens (modern humans), plus several extinct species classified as either ancestral to or closely related to modern humans (e.g., Homo neanderthalensis, Homo habilis).
Etymology
The genus name Homo is a Latin word meaning "human", "man", "person". It was chosen by Carl Linnaeus in his biological classification system, known as Linnaean Taxonomy, in the 18th century.
Related Terms
- Homo sapiens: The species to which all modern human beings belong. Homo sapiens is one of several species grouped into the genus Homo, but it is the only one that is not extinct.
- Homo neanderthalensis: An extinct species or subspecies of archaic humans in the genus Homo, which became extinct around 40,000 years ago. They are closely related to modern humans, sharing 99.7% of DNA.
- Homo habilis: An extinct species of the tribe Hominini, during the Gelasian and early Calabrian stages of the Pleistocene period, which lived between roughly 2.1 and 1.5 million years ago.
- Hominini: A taxonomic tribe of the subfamily Homininae; it comprises three subtribes: Hominina, with its one genus Homo; Australopithecina, comprising several extinct genera; and Panina, with its one genus Pan, which includes chimpanzees and bonobos.
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on Homo
- Wikipedia's article - Homo
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