Re: hominid time-line?

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> Rohrlich writes:
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> "...It is my impression that the Neanderthals, or Homo
> Sapiens, in the Near East may have mingled with Homo Sapiens Sapiens; in
> other words, H.S. in that area looked like H.S.S."

> Read writes:

> I don't want to be picky, but the nomenclature, Homo sapiens sapiens, refers
> to a group of organisms who consitute a subspecies of the
> species Homo sapiens--the taxon Homo sapiens sapiens contrasts with Homo
> sapiens neanderthalensis. Thus (and here I am only referring to the taxon
> labels, not whether the labels also correctly identify an empirical reality)
> for the time frame in which "neanderthals" existed, the taxonomic labeling
> asserts that the species, Homo sapiens, is made up of two subspecies, Homo
> sapiens sapiens and Homo sapiens neanderthalensis. So it doesn't make sense
> to talk about H.S. mingling with, or looking like, H.S.S.
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This is not picky at all. To point out that Rohrlich should not capitalize the
species and subspecies portions of the taxa-- that would be picky.

Jim Murphy
jmurphy@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu

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