Ancient woodworkings found in Zambia suggest early humans built complex structures and were more settled than previously thought
  • Skyrmir@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Human is specifically Homo Sapiens. The rest of the Homo genus, be they ancestors or not, are not recognized as human.

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Considering the fact that we interbred with H. neanderthalensis and H. denisova (and still carry the residual DNA to prove it), I think it’s pretty well proven that considering only H. sapiens to be “human” is overly narrow.

      Personally, I would argue that anything within the Homo genus is human by definition (that’s what the word means!), and that anything non-human belongs in a genus like Australopithecus or Paranthropus instead.