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Homo sapiens is the binomial name for the taxonomic species of the human world population. The species is usually taken to have emerged out of a predecessor within the Homo genus around 200,000 years ago, but there is no universal consensus on terminology, and some scholars include humans of up to 600,000 years ago under the same species.
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- This article is about Homo sapiens as a taxonomic species. For a more general perspective on mankind, see human.
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There are two commonly recognized subspecies, Homo sapiens sapiens, which includes all humans alive today, and Homo sapiens idaltu, based on fossil evidence of about 160,000 years ago.
The term Anatomically modern human (AMH) in paleoanthropology refers to early individuals of Homo sapiens with an appearance consistent with the range of phenotypes in modern humans. Anatomically modern humans evolved from archaic Homo sapiens in the Middle Paleolithic, about 200,000 years ago. The emergence of anatomically modern human marks the dawn of the subspecies Homo sapiens sapiens, i.e. the subspecies of Homo sapiens that includes all modern humans.
The designation Homo sapiens was introduced by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the 10th edition of his Systema Naturae, and referred only to modern humans. As fossil specimens which are related to modern humans in varying degrees came to be discovered, controversy arose over just what the designation Homo sapiens should include. In the mid-to-late 20th century, Homo sapiens was often taken to include the Neanderthals and archaic Homo sapiens. More modern treatments limit this designation to living humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) and Homo sapiens idaltu.