Study: Chimps Belong In Human Genus

[T. Michael Keesey]

--- Gary Rosenberg <rosenberg at ACNATSCI.ORG> wrote:
> 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.

I thought the orangutan composite was _Simia satyrus_?
What a tangled tale....

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