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Why do they classify the modern man as Homo sapiens sapiens?

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Your question is about the subspecies Homo sapiens sapiens in comparison to other subspecies. Biologists update their classifications as new information becomes available. Currently there's only one extant subspecies, namely Homo sapiens sapiens, but others existed in the past. read more

Currently there’s only one extant subspecies, namely Homo sapiens sapiens, but others existed in the past. Homo sapiens idaltu has been named for 160,000-year-old hominid fossils of Ethiopia. They are sufficiently different from modern humans that some biologists classify them as separate subspecies. read more

If you consider Neanderthals as merely a subspecies of human rather than a separate species, then they are Homo sapiens neandarthalensis, and modern man is Homo sapiens sapiens. How they are classified depends on whether they were completely interfertile with modern man (subspecies) or whether, as some researchers believe, only some of the possible crosses were fertile (close but separate species). read more

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