Homo sapiens
by Jon Burch Photography
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Homo sapiens
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Jon Burch Photography
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Photograph - Digital Capture/faa Watermark Will Not Appear On Your Finished Photograph.
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Homo sapiens or "wise man" in Latin, is the scientific name for the 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. Scientific study of human evolution is concerned, primarily, with the development of the genus Homo, but usually involves studying other hominids and hominines as well, such as Australopithecus. "Modern humans" are defined as the Homo sapiens species, of which the only extant subspecies is known as Homo sapiens sapiens.
The evolutionary history of primates can be traced back 65 million years. Primates are one of the oldest of all surviving placental mammal groups. The oldest known primate-like mammal species come from North America, but inhabited Eurasia and Africa on a wide scale during the tropical conditions of the Paleocene and Eocene. Molecular evidence suggests that the last common ancestor between humans and the remaining great apes diverging 4-8 million years ago.
This concrete hand print on a window window was photographed on a street in a small town in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.
Image copyright 2012 Jon Burch Photography
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April 1st, 2012
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