Homo_sapiens_idaltu Homo_sapiens_idaltu

Homo sapiens idaltu - Definition and Overview
Humans
Conservation status: Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Primates
Family:Hominidae
Subfamily:Homininae
Genus:Homo
Species:H. sapiens
Subspecies:idaltu
Trinomial name
Homo sapiens idaltu
White et al, 2003


Homo sapiens idaltu is an extinct subspecies of Homo sapiens that lived over 160,000 years ago in Africa. Its fossilized remains were discovered in Ethiopia in 2003. This fossil differs from those of early forms of H. sapiens sapiens such as Cro-Magnon found in Europe and other parts of the world in that its morphology has many archaic features not typical of H. sapiens. It appears to be the oldest representative of the H. sapiens species found so far. The name idaltu is an Amharic word for "elder".

See also

References

  • White et al, Pleistocene Homo sapiens from Middle Awash, Ethiopia, Nature, 423:742-7 (2003).

Example Usage of sapiens
VWerner: @naturaldevi actually through that book&the homo sapiens trilogy I came 2 the conclusion that I'm agnostic w/ heavy neopagan influences ...
fobes: @michaelfmuller Well, Michael, shall we discuss politics? and then throw in homo sapiens?
nathanii: o Homo se diz sapiens, mas o que mais lhe parece faltar é a sapiência (8)
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