This links to a different online version of the same story, better graphic:
Human evolution [Credit: FuntasticZone]
Posted on 08/27/2011 4:50:13 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
For about 250 years, our species has been known as Homo sapiens, a scientific name in Latin that means "wise man."
Given the havoc humans are wreaking on natural systems, putting ourselves and so many other living things in peril, we don't deserve this name, contends Julian Cribb, an Australian science writer and book author...
"Changing our species name might risk infringing some of the hallowed rules of nomenclature, but it would send an important signal about our present collective behavior," he writes.
Cribb has no suggestion for a new name, "because I want humanity at large to discuss this issue -- not just scientists," he said in an email to LiveScience.com...
"You can't just go out and change a name," said Ellinor Michel, the executive secretary of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, the entity that regulates the system for naming animals. She explained that the system in place gives priority to the oldest established name. "That is why people are asked to behave nicely when they give names."
Michel has heard this suggestion before. In 2008, for instance, she received a petition from a Pennsylvania-based group, Responsible Policies for Animals Inc., to change our species name to Homo complexus -- a change the group said would establish humans' complexity, rather than their wisdom, as their defining trait.
"I’m dismayed to see it creeping into Nature," Michel wrote in an email, referring to the proposed name change. "Though it is vaguely amusing."
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
Human evolution [Credit: FuntasticZone]
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We already have “dum ba$$” ~ what do we need another name for?
Earth to Cribb:
“Get a life.”
;^)
Just call us saps. It is shorter and it sure fits the majority.
Romans 1:22
Sure you can...
Negro - Colored - Black - African-American.
Let's have a contest to predict what will be next!
So homophobia is one that fears men then?
Hey Prof! If anything “man” has done that is irrefutably unwise, and has been the root cause of the majority of the increasingly depraved activity of “professionals” such as you and your colleagues, it is the pushing of the assinine notion of Darwinian evolution. Pound into ak child’s mind that he/she is an animal, and they will soon begin acting like animals.
If you and your ilk were even one millionth as intelligent as you pass yourselves off to be, you would recognize that every living creature is composed of myriad SYSTEMS! Repiratory, circulatory, reproductive, elimination, etc., etc., ad infinitum! I defy you to demonstrate to me even ONE system in the biological world which has even an infinitesimal chance of EVER coming into being by happenstance....or even by your fraudulent and operationally impossible “natural selection” which is NEITHER natural nor selective!
Love that pic!
How about Homo Armato (Well Armed Man)? That might better sum up the last hundred thousand years of man’s success, in spite of being a furless weakling walking around with a big juicy tootsie pop of a brain. If we weren’t armed our role in nature would be as a food source for seriously bad ass critters. Armed, we are the BA’s.
Sodomy = Marriage
No. Homo sapiens includes the Latin for "man", but the "homo" in "homophobia" comes from the Greek for "same"
So "homophobia" is "fear of the same", ie those who want "change", eg Barack Obama supporters are homophobes.
Incredible how much I learn here on FR. Thanks!
The parasites of society are lecturing the creative and productive about earth abuse.
I've got my own inclination about how to address that issue (if it were a real concern,) and it is neither Christian nor pretty.
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