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GENUS Homo

Author:Linnaeus, 1758.
Citation:Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 20.
Type Species:Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758.
Comments:Included with Pan and the fossil taxon Australopithecus in subtribe Hominina by McKenna and Bell (1997). Includes Pan as a subgenus according to Goodman et al. (1998); according to Goodman et al. (2001c), all fossil representatives of the human lineage (including Australopithecus) would be synonyms of Homo.
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SPECIES sapiens

Synonyms:

    Africanthropus Weinert, 1938
    Anthropus Boyd Dawkins, 1926
    Archanthropus Arldt, 1915
    Atlanthropus Arambourg, 1954
    Cyphanthropus Pycraft, 1928
    Europanthropus Wüst, 1950
    Javanthropus Oppenoorth, 1932
    Maueranthropus Montandon, 1943
    Meganthropus Weidenreich, 1944
    Nipponanthropus Hasebe, 1948
    Notanthropus Sergi, 1911
    Palaeanthropus Bonarelli, 1907
    Pithecanthropus Dubois, 1894
    Praehomo von Eickstedt, 1932
    Proanthropus Wilser, 1900
    Pseudhomo Ameghino, 1909
    Sinanthropus Black and Zdansky, 1927
    Tchadanthropus Coppens, 1965
    Telanthropus Broom and Robinson, 1949

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