Path: typhoon.sonic.net!feed.news.sonic.net!sjc70.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!gestalt.direcpc.com!telocity-west!DIRECTV!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: "Stephen Hayes" Newsgroups: sci.anthropology Subject: Ancestors Double with Each Generation Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2003 06:24:50 Organization: www.family-bbs.net [FamilyNet International] Message-ID: <000728c1@fmlynet.org> X-Gateway: NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2 NNTP <-> FidoNet Gateway X-FTNADDR: 8:7903/10.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 43 Xref: typhoon.sonic.net sci.anthropology:96599 FamilyNet Newsgate * Forwarded (from: GEN_BRITAIN) by Stephen Hayes using timEd/2 1.10.y2k. * Originally from Don Aitken (8:8/2002) to All. * Original dated: Tue Dec 31, 13:40 ~From: Don Aitken On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 03:54:38 -0500, "Mick Gurling" wrote: >> Homo sapiens is not a race; it is a species. >> >Dang it and I though t the species was Hominids and that Homo Sapiens was a >sub-species! Nope, although things are tending that way. This is the traditional version - Order: Primata Suborder: Anthropoidea (one of two) Superfamily: Hominoidea (one of three) Family: Hominidae (one of two) Genus: Homo (no others) Species: Sapiens (no others) Subspecies: Sapiens (no others) The trouble with this is that it greatly overstates the genetic distance between humans and apes (Family Pongidae). It will undoubtedly be further simplified at some point: the days when every new fossil hominid was assigned to a new genus are long gone. Family seems too high a level for the Hominidae, a group containing only one extant subspecies, so they may well be downgraded - not as far as species, though. -- Don Aitken ___ NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2 - Origin: FamilyNet Newsgate telnet://www.family-bbs.net (8:8/2002) FamilyNet <> Internet Gated Mail http://www.fmlynet.org