Lord Hatred > writes:
>In article .com>,
> wrote:
>> No, she's right. (In the correct sense, not the poltical spectrum.) The
>> scientific community views Ergaster, Habilis, Neanderthalis and others
>> of the Homo genus as human, and counts them as human beings.
> Some scientists will also argue that chimpanzees and gorillas should
>be included in the Homo class due to the genetic similarities. I
>wouldn't call them humans at all. As I stated before, you can't accept
>evolution of a species without evolution within the species.
Homo's a genus, not a class, and of course Homo ergaster, Homo habilis,
etc. are in it. I'm not aware of any argument to include gorillas
in Homo, but there's a compelling case for chimps (and probably moreso
for bonobos).
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