History of Homo

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	Revision 19 . . December 17, 2001 2:30 am by Hagedis [moving hominid]
	Revision 18 . . December 17, 2001 12:56 am by Hagedis
	Revision 17 . . (edit) December 17, 2001 12:24 am by Zundark [move prefix to end]
	Revision 16 . . (edit) December 17, 2001 12:22 am by Hagedis
	Revision 15 . . December 17, 2001 12:19 am by Hagedis [a quick web search is good enough for me]
	Revision 14 . . (edit) December 17, 2001 12:11 am by Hagedis
	Revision 13 . . December 17, 2001 12:06 am by (logged).123.179.xxx
	Revision 12 . . December 16, 2001 9:32 pm by Hagedis [same as hominid]
	Revision 11 . . November 28, 2001 12:40 am by Dmerrill [+initial sentence]
	Revision 10 . . (edit) November 27, 2001 8:09 pm by Kwaku
	Revision 9 . . (edit) November 27, 2001 8:08 pm by Kwaku
	Revision 8 . . November 27, 2001 8:07 pm by Kwaku [added explanation of latin word]
	Revision 7 . . September 22, 2001 6:27 pm by Simon J Kissane *[made language more gender neutral]**

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Homo is Latin for man. In biology it denotes the genus? that contains modern humans (Homo sapiens or "Man the Thinker") as well as a number of extinct humans. Members of the genus are called hominids.

Homo is Latin for man. In biology it denotes the genus? that contains modern humans (Homo sapiens or "Man the Thinker") as well as a number of extinct humans.