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== Name and taxonomy == == Name and taxonomy ==
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The ] ''Homo sapiens'' was coined by ] (1758).<ref>{{cite book|last=Linné|first=Carl von|title=Systema naturæ. Regnum animale.|year=1758|pages=18, 20|url=http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/80764#page/28/mode/1up|edition=10|accessdate=19 November 2012}}.</ref>
The ] noun ''homō'' (genitive ''hominis'') means "], human being".

] of ''H. sapiens'' include ''Homo sapiens idaltu'' and the only ] subspecies, ''Homo sapiens sapiens''. Some sources show ]s (''Homo neanderthalensis'') as a subspecies (''Homo sapiens neanderthalensis'').<ref name="HublinOrigin">{{cite journal |doi=10.1073/pnas.0904119106 |title=The origin of Neandertals |year=2009 |last1=Hublin |first1=J. J. |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |volume=106 |issue=38 |pages=16022–7 |pmid=19805257 |jstor=40485013 |bibcode=2009PNAS..10616022H |pmc=2752594}}</ref><ref name="HFMcN">{{Cite journal |title=Neanderthal taxonomy reconsidered: implications of 3D primate models of intra- and interspecific differences |url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14745010/ |pmid=14745010 |last1=Harvati |first1=K. |last2=Frost |first2=S.R. |last3=McNulty |first3=K.P. |date=2004 |accessdate=2015-02-06 |doi=10.1073/pnas.0308085100 |pmc=337021 |volume=101 |journal=Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. |pages=1147–52}}</ref> Similarly, the discovered specimens of the '']'' species have been classified by some as a subspecies (''Homo sapiens rhodesiensis''), but these last two subspecies classifications are not widely accepted by scientists.


== Origin == == Origin ==
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The recent African origin of modern humans is the mainstream model that describes the origin and ] of ]. The theory is called the ''(Recent) Out-of-Africa'' model in the popular press, and academically the ''recent single-origin hypothesis'' (''RSOH''), ''Replacement Hypothesis'', and ''Recent African Origin'' (''RAO'') model. The hypothesis that humans have a single origin (monogenesis) was published in ]'s '']'' (1871). The concept was speculative until the 1980s, when it was corroborated by a study of present-day ], combined with evidence based on ] of archaic ]. According to genetic and fossil evidence, ] evolved to ] solely in ], between 200,000 and 100,000 years ago, with members of one branch leaving Africa by 60,000 years ago and over time replacing earlier human populations such as ] and '']''. The recent African origin of modern humans is the mainstream model that describes the origin and ] of ]. The theory is called the ''(Recent) Out-of-Africa'' model in the popular press, and academically the ''recent single-origin hypothesis'' (''RSOH''), ''Replacement Hypothesis'', and ''Recent African Origin'' (''RAO'') model. The hypothesis that humans have a single origin (monogenesis) was published in ]'s '']'' (1871). The concept was speculative until the 1980s, when it was corroborated by a study of present-day ], combined with evidence based on ] of archaic ]. According to genetic and fossil evidence, ] evolved to ] solely in ], between 200,000 and 100,000 years ago, with members of one branch leaving Africa by 60,000 years ago and over time replacing earlier human populations such as ] and '']''.


The recent single origin of modern humans in is the near-consensus position held within the scientific community.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Liu | first1 = Hua | display-authors = etal | year = 2006 | title = A Geographically Explicit Genetic Model of Worldwide Human-Settlement History | doi = 10.1086/505436 | journal = The American Journal of Human Genetics | volume = 79 | issue = | pages = 230–237 | quote = Currently available genetic and archaeological evidence is generally interpreted as supportive of a recent single origin of modern humans in East Africa. However, this is where '''the near consensus''' on human settlement history ends, and considerable uncertainty clouds any more detailed aspect of human colonization history. | pmid=16826514 | pmc=1559480}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/sci;308/5724/921g |title=Out of Africa Revisited – 308 (5724): 921&nbsp;g – Science |doi=10.1126/science.308.5724.921g |publisher=Sciencemag.org |date=2005-05-13 |accessdate=2009-11-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Nature |url=http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v423/n6941/full/423692a.html |title=Access : Human evolution: Out of Ethiopia |publisher=Nature |date=2003-06-12 |accessdate=2009-11-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.actionbioscience.org/evolution/johanson.html |title=Origins of Modern Humans: Multiregional or Out of Africa? |publisher=ActionBioscience |accessdate=2009-11-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.asa3.org/ASA/education/origins/migration.htm |title=Modern Humans – Single Origin (Out of Africa) vs Multiregional |publisher=Asa3.org |accessdate=2009-11-23}}</ref> However, recent sequencing of the full Neanderthal genome suggests Neanderthals and some modern humans share some ancient genetic lineages. The recent single origin of modern humans in ] is the near-consensus position held within the scientific community.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Liu | first1 = Hua | display-authors = etal | year = 2006 | title = A Geographically Explicit Genetic Model of Worldwide Human-Settlement History | doi = 10.1086/505436 | journal = The American Journal of Human Genetics | volume = 79 | issue = | pages = 230–237 | quote = Currently available genetic and archaeological evidence is generally interpreted as supportive of a recent single origin of modern humans in East Africa. However, this is where '''the near consensus''' on human settlement history ends, and considerable uncertainty clouds any more detailed aspect of human colonization history. | pmid=16826514 | pmc=1559480}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/sci;308/5724/921g |title=Out of Africa Revisited – 308 (5724): 921&nbsp;g – Science |doi=10.1126/science.308.5724.921g |publisher=Sciencemag.org |date=2005-05-13 |accessdate=2009-11-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Nature |url=http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v423/n6941/full/423692a.html |title=Access : Human evolution: Out of Ethiopia |publisher=Nature |date=2003-06-12 |accessdate=2009-11-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.actionbioscience.org/evolution/johanson.html |title=Origins of Modern Humans: Multiregional or Out of Africa? |publisher=ActionBioscience |accessdate=2009-11-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.asa3.org/ASA/education/origins/migration.htm |title=Modern Humans – Single Origin (Out of Africa) vs Multiregional |publisher=Asa3.org |accessdate=2009-11-23}}</ref> However, recent sequencing of the full Neanderthal genome suggests Neanderthals and some modern humans share some ancient genetic lineages.
The authors of the study suggest that their findings are consistent with Neanderthal admixture of up to 4% in some populations. But the study also suggests that there may be other reasons why humans and Neanderthals share ancient genetic lineages.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/328/5979/710 |title=A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome |year=2010 |last=Green <!--|display-authors=et al. -->|doi=10.1126/science.1188021 |publisher=] |pmid=20448178|first1=RE |last2=Krause |first2=J |last3=Briggs |first3=AW |last4=Maricic |first4=T |last5=Stenzel |first5=U |last6=Kircher |first6=M |last7=Patterson |first7=N |last8=Li |first8=H |last9=Zhai |first9=W |last10=Fritz |first10=M. H. Y. |last11=Hansen |first11=N. F. |last12=Durand |first12=E. Y. |last13=Malaspinas |first13=A. S. |last14=Jensen |first14=J. D. |last15=Marques-Bonet |first15=T. |last16=Alkan |first16=C. |last17=Prufer |first17=K. |last18=Meyer |first18=M. |last19=Burbano |first19=H. A. |last20=Good |first20=J. M. |last21=Schultz |first21=R. |last22=Aximu-Petri |first22=A. |last23=Butthof |first23=A. |last24=Hober |first24=B. |last25=Hoffner |first25=B. |last26=Siegemund |first26=M. |last27=Weihmann |first27=A. |last28=Nusbaum |first28=C. |last29=Lander |first29=E. S. |last30=Russ |first30=C. |volume=328 |issue=5979 |pages=710–22 |journal=Science |ref=harv |display-authors=8}}</ref> In August 2012, a study by scientists at the University of Cambridge questioned this conclusion, hypothesising instead that the DNA overlap is a remnant of a common ancestor of both Neanderthals and modern humans. That study however does not explain why only a fraction of modern humans have Neanderthal DNA.<ref>, The Guardian, Tuesday 14 August 2012</ref><ref>Anders Eriksson and Andrea Manica The authors of the study suggest that their findings are consistent with Neanderthal admixture of up to 4% in some populations. But the study also suggests that there may be other reasons why humans and Neanderthals share ancient genetic lineages.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/328/5979/710 |title=A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome |year=2010 |last=Green <!--|display-authors=et al. -->|doi=10.1126/science.1188021 |publisher=] |pmid=20448178|first1=RE |last2=Krause |first2=J |last3=Briggs |first3=AW |last4=Maricic |first4=T |last5=Stenzel |first5=U |last6=Kircher |first6=M |last7=Patterson |first7=N |last8=Li |first8=H |last9=Zhai |first9=W |last10=Fritz |first10=M. H. Y. |last11=Hansen |first11=N. F. |last12=Durand |first12=E. Y. |last13=Malaspinas |first13=A. S. |last14=Jensen |first14=J. D. |last15=Marques-Bonet |first15=T. |last16=Alkan |first16=C. |last17=Prufer |first17=K. |last18=Meyer |first18=M. |last19=Burbano |first19=H. A. |last20=Good |first20=J. M. |last21=Schultz |first21=R. |last22=Aximu-Petri |first22=A. |last23=Butthof |first23=A. |last24=Hober |first24=B. |last25=Hoffner |first25=B. |last26=Siegemund |first26=M. |last27=Weihmann |first27=A. |last28=Nusbaum |first28=C. |last29=Lander |first29=E. S. |last30=Russ |first30=C. |volume=328 |issue=5979 |pages=710–22 |journal=Science |ref=harv |display-authors=8}}</ref> In August 2012, a study by scientists at the University of Cambridge questioned this conclusion, hypothesising instead that the DNA overlap is a remnant of a common ancestor of both Neanderthals and modern humans. That study however does not explain why only a fraction of modern humans have Neanderthal DNA.<ref>, The Guardian, Tuesday 14 August 2012</ref><ref>Anders Eriksson and Andrea Manica
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This article is about Homo sapiens as a taxonomic classification. For a more general perspective on the human species, see Human. For other uses, see Homo sapiens (disambiguation).

Homo sapiens
Temporal range: 0.195–0 Ma PreꞒ O S D C P T J K Pg NMiddle PleistocenePresent
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Homo sapiens sapiens
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Hominidae
Subfamily: Homininae
Tribe: Hominini
Genus: Homo
Species: H. sapiens
Binomial name
Homo sapiens
Linnaeus, 1758
Subspecies

Homo sapiens idaltu
Homo sapiens sapiens

Homo sapiens (Latin: "wise man") is the binomial nomenclature (also known as the scientific name) for the only extant human species. Homo is the human genus, which also includes Neanderthals and many other extinct species of hominid; H. sapiens is the only surviving species of the genus Homo. Modern humans are the subspecies Homo sapiens sapiens, which differentiates them from what has been argued to be their direct ancestor, Homo sapiens idaltu. The ingenuity and adaptability of Homo sapiens has led to its becoming the most influential species on the planet; it is currently deemed of least concern on the Red List of endangered species by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.

Name and taxonomy

Further information: Homo and Names for the human species

The binomial name Homo sapiens was coined by Carl Linnaeus (1758). The Latin noun homō (genitive hominis) means "man, human being".

Subspecies of H. sapiens include Homo sapiens idaltu and the only extant subspecies, Homo sapiens sapiens. Some sources show Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) as a subspecies (Homo sapiens neanderthalensis). Similarly, the discovered specimens of the Homo rhodesiensis species have been classified by some as a subspecies (Homo sapiens rhodesiensis), but these last two subspecies classifications are not widely accepted by scientists.

Origin

Schematic representation of the emergence of H. sapiens from earlier species of Homo. The horizontal axis represents geographic location; the vertical axis represents time in millions of years ago. Blue areas denote the presence of a certain species at a given time and place. Early modern humans spread from Africa across different regions of the globe and interbred with other descendants of Homo heidelbergensis, namely Neanderthals, Denisovans, and unknown archaic African hominins (top right).

Traditionally, there are two competing views in paleoanthropology about the origin of H. sapiens: the recent African origin and the multiregional origin.

Since 2010, genetic research has led to the emergence of an intermediate position, characterised by mostly recent African origin plus limited admixture with archaic humans.

The recent African origin of modern humans is the mainstream model that describes the origin and early dispersal of anatomically modern humans. The theory is called the (Recent) Out-of-Africa model in the popular press, and academically the recent single-origin hypothesis (RSOH), Replacement Hypothesis, and Recent African Origin (RAO) model. The hypothesis that humans have a single origin (monogenesis) was published in Charles Darwin's Descent of Man (1871). The concept was speculative until the 1980s, when it was corroborated by a study of present-day mitochondrial DNA, combined with evidence based on physical anthropology of archaic specimens. According to genetic and fossil evidence, archaic Homo sapiens evolved to anatomically modern humans solely in Africa, between 200,000 and 100,000 years ago, with members of one branch leaving Africa by 60,000 years ago and over time replacing earlier human populations such as Neanderthals and Homo erectus.

The recent single origin of modern humans in East Africa is the near-consensus position held within the scientific community. However, recent sequencing of the full Neanderthal genome suggests Neanderthals and some modern humans share some ancient genetic lineages. The authors of the study suggest that their findings are consistent with Neanderthal admixture of up to 4% in some populations. But the study also suggests that there may be other reasons why humans and Neanderthals share ancient genetic lineages. In August 2012, a study by scientists at the University of Cambridge questioned this conclusion, hypothesising instead that the DNA overlap is a remnant of a common ancestor of both Neanderthals and modern humans. That study however does not explain why only a fraction of modern humans have Neanderthal DNA.

The multiregional origin model provides an explanation for the pattern of human evolution proposed by Milford H. Wolpoff in 1988. Multiregional origin holds that the evolution of humanity from the beginning of the Pleistocene 2.5 million years BP to the present day has been within a single, continuous human species, evolving worldwide to modern Homo sapiens sapiens.

Evolution

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Main article: Anatomically modern humans § Evolution Further information: Human evolution, Homo, Anatomically modern humans, Timeline of human evolution, and Early human migrations

The time frame for the evolution of the genus Homo out of the chimpanzee–human last common ancestor is roughly 10 to 2 million years ago, that of H. sapiens out of Homo erectus roughly 1.8 to 0.2 million years ago.

Scientific study of human evolution is concerned, primarily, with the development of the genus Homo (extant and extinct human species), but usually involves studying other hominids as well, i.e. other "great apes"; these include Australopithecus, an important ancestor of humans, and our current as well as extinct relatives among the Homininae subfamily: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and the related extinct hominins.

"Modern humans" are defined as the Homo sapiens species, of which the only extant subspecies is known as Homo sapiens sapiens.

Homo sapiens idaltu, the other known subspecies, is now extinct. Homo neanderthalensis, which became extinct 30,000 years ago, has sometimes been classified as a subspecies, "Homo sapiens neanderthalensis"; genetic studies now suggest that the functional DNA of modern humans and Neanderthals diverged 500,000 years ago.

Similarly, the discovered specimens of the Homo rhodesiensis species have been classified by some as a subspecies, but this classification is not widely accepted.

Anatomically modern humans first appear in the fossil record in Africa about 195,000 years ago (see Omo remains), and studies of molecular biology give evidence that the approximate time of divergence from the common ancestor of all modern human populations was 200,000 years ago. The broad study of African genetic diversity found the ǂKhomani San people to express the greatest genetic diversity among the 113 distinct populations sampled, making them one of 14 "ancestral population clusters". The research also located the origin of modern human migration in southwestern Africa, near the coastal border of Namibia and Angola.

The forces of natural selection have continued to operate on human populations, with evidence that certain regions of the genome display directional selection in the past 15,000 years.

See also

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