Re: Are you a mutant?

From: Dan Hook (dhook@andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Sun Feb 20 2000 - 07:58:53 MST


On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Robert Owen wrote:

> "Homo" is the primate genus, but don't you suppose "transhuman"
> implies a new species?
>
> "Sapiens" and "Neanderthal" are species of the genus "Homo" and
> surely...

Actually, they are sub-species, sort of. We are Homo sapiens sapiens.
Neanderthals were Homo sapiens neanderthalis.

Dan Hook
"So high, so low, so many things to know." -- V. Vinge



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