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  • Bid to Rename Homo Sapiens Is Called Unwise

    08/27/2011 4:50:13 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 14 replies
    LiveScience ^ | Wednesday, August 17, 2011 | Wynne Parry
    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...