Study: Chimps Belong In Human Genus

[Gary Rosenberg]

If Pan were to be synonymized with Homo, then Homo troglodytes (Blumenbach, 1775) (the chimpanzee, originally name in the genus Simia) would be preoccupied by Homo troglodytes Linnaeus, 1758. Linnaeus's species is a composite of human and possibly orangutan, but not chimpanzee. See Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 42(4): 368-369 and 45(4):304. The genus Pan was introduced by Oken, 1816.

Gary



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