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Why we are called homo sapiens?

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Because our species was called that in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus, the inventor of the binominal system and the type specimen of our species. read more

Similarly, the discovered specimens of the Homo rhodesiensis species have been classified by some as a subspecies (Homo sapiens rhodesiensis), although it remains more common to treat these last two as separate species within the genus Homo rather than as subspecies within H. sapiens. read more

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