User:Ichthyovenator/Homo list

This list of fossil species of Homo is a comprehensive listing of all species based on fossil material that have ever been included in the genus Homo, excluding purely vernacular terms. The list includes commonly accepted species, but also species that are disputed or controversial, as well as species names now considered invalid synonyms.

In addition to the only living species of the genus, modern humans (Homo sapiens), over a hundred species based on fossil material have at one point or another been assigned, or proposed to be assigned, to the genus Homo, many of them based only on single fossils. The vast majority of these species are now recognized as synonymous with more well-known species and modern scientists typically only recognize a handful of extinct species, the most commonly accepted being H. antecessor, H. erectus, H. ergaster, H. floresiensis, H. habilis, H. heidelbergensis, H. naledi, H. neanderthalensis and H. rudolfensis.

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The list below includes all species historically described as part of, or attributed to, the genus Homo in scientific literature based on fossil or sub-fossil material. Out of the 102 names listed, only nine extinct species are commonly accepted by modern researchers: H. antecessor, H. erectus, H. ergaster, H. floresiensis, H. habilis, H. heidelbergensis, H. naledi, H. neanderthalensis and H. rudolfensis. The recently published species H. luzonensis and H. longi have also not yet been challenged in the scientific literature.

In addition to these accepted species, there are several disputed and proposed species with varying degrees of acceptance among different researchers as well as a large amount of species names now recognized as invalid. Some potentially distinct populations of archaic humans, such as the Denisovans, the Red Deer Cave people and the Nesher Ramla Homo are excluded since they have not been formally scientifically described under new binomial names.

{{legend|#FFDEAD|Disputed/controversial}} {{legend|#D3D3D3|Junior synonym or dubious/invalid name}} {{legend|#ffcccc|Regarded as species of another genus}} {{legend|#7FFFD4|Regarded as subspecies}}