Homo sapiens
| Primates -- Contemporary
| Primates -- Prehistoric
| Hominids
| Australopithecus
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Genus |
Species |
Variety |
Alternative Name |
Example |
Homo
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sapiens
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heidelberg-
ensis |
"Pre-Modern"
("Archaic")
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Heidelberg, Steinheim, Swanscombe,
Kabwe . . .
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Neanderthal-
ensis?
(Denisovans?)
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Neandertal
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sapiens
(prehistoric)
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Prehistoric
"Early
Moderns"
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Cro-Magnon, Border Cave, Qafzeh, etc.
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sapiens
(contemporary)
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Contemporary
"Moderns"
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UMD
Students
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Special Case: Piltdown
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Adapted from Intoduction
to Physical Anthropology, 8th ed, Jurmain, Nelson, Kilgore,
and Trevathan
(Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2000,
pp. 285 - 290).
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