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2 days ago · Carl Linnaeus [a] (23 May 1707 [note 1] – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné, [3] [b] was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy ". [4] Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is ...
4 days ago · Moorjani and colleagues conclude in the preprint that Neanderthal genes began flowing into the ancestors of people alive today about 47,000 years ago. Modeling shorter and longer periods of gene flow, they found that a scenario in which Neanderthals and modern humans exchanged genes over a period of about 6000 to 7000 years best fit the data.
2 days ago · Human evolution. The hominoids are descendants of a common ancestor. Human evolution is the evolutionary process within the history of primates that led to the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species of the hominid family that includes all the great apes. [1]
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3 days ago · In a new study of German cockroach genetics published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers map the spread of the pest over the last couple millennia ...
4 days ago · The three fossils, a molar, a calotte, and a femur, therefore jointly constitute the original holotype. However, the femur most likely derives from younger strata than the other hominins and shows fully modern human-like morphology, unlike subsequently discovered H. erectus femora.
2 days ago · The Latin noun homō (genitive hominis) means "human being" or "man" in the generic sense of "human being, mankind". The binomial name Homo sapiens was coined by Carl Linnaeus (1758). Names for other species of the genus were introduced from the second half of the 19th century (H. neanderthalensis 1864, H. erectus 1892).
4 days ago · The current system of biological classification has been heavily influenced by the 18th century work of Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus. Linnaeus is credited with developing the system of binomial nomenclature as well as popularizing the system of taxonomic hierarchy, both of which we still use today.
