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Taxonomy
Homo was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.
It was assigned to Primates by Linnaeus (1758); to Erecta by Illiger (1811); to Hominidae by Schultz and Howard (1935), Kurten (1968), Kurten and Anderson (1980) and McKenna and Bell (1997); to Homininae by Pilbeam et al. (1977), Andrews and Cronin (1982), Cameron (1997) and Cela-Conde and Ayala (2003); to Hominina by Gray (1825) and Harrison (2010); to Hominoidea by Zalmout et al. (2010); and to Hominini by Andrews (1992), Brown et al. (2004) and Strait et al. (2015).
It was assigned to Primates by Linnaeus (1758); to Erecta by Illiger (1811); to Hominidae by Schultz and Howard (1935), Kurten (1968), Kurten and Anderson (1980) and McKenna and Bell (1997); to Homininae by Pilbeam et al. (1977), Andrews and Cronin (1982), Cameron (1997) and Cela-Conde and Ayala (2003); to Hominina by Gray (1825) and Harrison (2010); to Hominoidea by Zalmout et al. (2010); and to Hominini by Andrews (1992), Brown et al. (2004) and Strait et al. (2015).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1758 | Homo Linnaeus p. 20 |
| 1811 | Homo Illiger p. 65 |
| 1821 | Bimanes Gray p. 297 |
| 1825 | Homo Gray p. 338 |
| 1894 | Pithecanthropus Dubois |
| 1895 | Protanthropus Haeckel |
| 1927 | Sinanthropus Black |
| 1928 | Cyphanthropus Pycraft |
| 1935 | Africanthropus Dreyer |
| 1935 | Homo Schultz and Howard p. 293 |
| 1949 | Telanthropus Broom and Anderson |
| 1954 | Atlanthropus Arambourg |
| 1965 | Tchadanthropus Coppens |
| 1968 | Homo Kurten p. 60 |
| 1968 | Pithecanthropus Kurten p. 60 |
| 1977 | Homo Pilbeam et al. p. 695 |
| 1980 | Homo Kurten and Anderson p. 355 |
| 1982 | Homo Andrews and Cronin p. 545 |
| 1992 | Homo Andrews p. 644 |
| 1997 | Homo Cameron |
| 1997 | Homo McKenna and Bell |
| 2001 | Kenyanthropus Leakey and et al. |
| 2003 | Homo Cela-Conde and Ayala |
| 2004 | Homo Brown et al. p. 1055 |
| 2010 | Homo Harrison |
| 2010 | Homo Zalmout et al. pp. Supp. 4 figs. Table 2 |
| 2015 | Homo Strait et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Homo Linnaeus 1758 [human]
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†Homo antecessor Bermudez de Castro 1997
†Homo floresiensis Brown et al. 2004 [hobbit]
†Homo georgicus Gabounia et al. 2002
†Homo habilis Leakey et al. 1964
†Homo heidelbergensis Schoetensack 1908
†Homo helmei Dreyer 1935
†Homo naledi Berger et al. 2015
†Homo neanderthalensis King 1864 [Neanderthal]
†Homo njarasensis Reck and Kohl-Larsen 1936
†Homo rhodesiensis Woodward 1921
†Homo rudolfensis Alexeev 1986
Homo sapiens Linnaeus 1758 [human]
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Homo sapiens afer Linnaeus 1758
Homo sapiens americanus Linnaeus 1758
Homo sapiens asiaticus Linnaeus 1758
Homo sapiens ferus Linnaeus 1758
†Homo sapiens idaltu White et al. 2003
Homo sapiens monstrosus Linnaeus 1758
Homo sapiens europaeus Linnaeus 1758
Invalid names: Africanthropus Dreyer 1935 [synonym], Atlanthropus Arambourg 1954 [synonym], Bimanes Gray 1821 [invalid subgroup], Cyphanthropus Pycraft 1928 [synonym], Kenyanthropus Leakey 2001 [synonym], Pithecanthropus Dubois 1894 [synonym], Protanthropus Haeckel 1895 [synonym], Sinanthropus Black 1927 [synonym], Tchadanthropus Coppens 1965 [synonym], Telanthropus Broom and Anderson 1949 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available