EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Correct: Homo sapiens (humans) walk upright. Humans like music. If a taxon is made common, such as Hominidae to “hominid”, it is not capitalized or italicized.

Detailed explanation-2: -Scientific names are always italicized. When hand-writing text, you can underline them instead, but there is no excuse not to italicize when using a word processor. Example: use Bos taurus, not Bos taurus. 2. The genus is always capitalized.

Detailed explanation-3: -Homo sapiens, (Latin: “wise man”) the species to which all modern human beings belong.

Detailed explanation-4: -The scientific name of humans is presented as Homo sapiens. ‘Homo’ represents the genus and ‘sapiens’ represents a particular species.

Detailed explanation-5: -Overview: The species that you and all other living human beings on this planet belong to is Homo sapiens. During a time of dramatic climate change 300, 000 years ago, Homo sapiens evolved in Africa.