# What Is Your Taxonomic Classification **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 7, 2012, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-taxonomic-classification/627506 "2012-07-07T06:36:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2012, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-taxonomic-classification/627506/21 "2012-07-07T23:20:50Z")
_Homo ludens_ ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2012, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-taxonomic-classification/627506/22 "2012-07-08T00:08:34Z")
_Homo Eroticus_ ---
**Author:** ![SuperAbe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@SuperAbe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperAbe)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2012, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-taxonomic-classification/627506/23 "2012-07-08T00:09:27Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I’m _Homo sapiens sparticusensis_. No, **I’m** _Homo sapiens sparticusensis_. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2012, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-taxonomic-classification/627506/24 "2012-07-08T03:14:51Z")
I’m _Oldfarticus modernis_ ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2012, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-taxonomic-classification/627506/25 "2012-07-08T06:27:30Z")
As far as I can tell, with the availability of modern mappings of diverse genomes throughout the scattered peoples of our planet, the best we can say is that our species really gets around and mates and procreates very well in the long term. The key here is what ‘long term’ means. In other words, how long have we been this way (_really gets around and mates and procreates very well_) and how long do you think we will stay this way? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2012, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-taxonomic-classification/627506/26 "2012-07-08T06:50:49Z")
Only until the next election. Then we’ll totally stick to our subgroups and concentrate on speciating. No more fooling around guys! ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2012, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-taxonomic-classification/627506/27 "2012-07-08T08:10:06Z")
Is it just me who takes mordant glee in the fact that the Capoid race was proposed by one [Carleton S. Coon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capoid_race)? ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2012, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-taxonomic-classification/627506/28 "2012-07-08T12:34:31Z")
White trash texican ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2012, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-taxonomic-classification/627506/29 "2012-07-08T15:26:43Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > There was nothing on the page, even after browsing and clicking links, to give me any information on what I might be defined as, so… > > I’ll go with homo-sapiens sapiens as well. \ Yeah, and trying to Google to find a clear list of these types (presented in an educational/academic historical context that states it’s discredited and bullshit) only seems to bring up websites and forums with a racist/white supremacist bent. Color me surprised. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2012, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-taxonomic-classification/627506/30 "2012-07-08T16:10:54Z")
> [@zweisamkeit](#): > > Yeah, and trying to Google to find a clear list of these types (presented in an educational/academic historical context that states it’s discredited and bullshit) only seems to bring up websites and forums with a racist/white supremacist bent. Color me surprised. :rolleyes: So, you’re saying your Colored? 😃 Poor, poor **OP**. No one will come out and play. ---
**Author:** ![listedmia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e0b2c6/32.png) [@listedmia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/listedmia)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2012, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-taxonomic-classification/627506/31 "2012-07-08T20:00:45Z")
I’m pretty much a European mutt. Might be some African in there, I don’t know. My dad’s people are very dark-skinned. In old family photographs they kind of look like Melungeons. Certain branches of the family have been in the US for almost 400 years, so we’ve got a lot of ethnicities in there. This question is kind of meaningless. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2012, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-taxonomic-classification/627506/32 "2012-07-08T21:05:28Z")
I’m a _Lazyass couchpotatocus._ ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2012, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-taxonomic-classification/627506/33 "2012-07-08T21:32:46Z")
> [@zweisamkeit](#): > > Yeah, and trying to Google to find a clear list of these types (presented in an educational/academic historical context that states it’s discredited and bullshit) only seems to bring up websites and forums with a racist/white supremacist bent. Color me surprised. It’s one of life’s mysteries as to why **Qin-Shi** idolises the prejudices of the type people who think he wouldn’t make a decent bar of soap. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2012, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-taxonomic-classification/627506/34 "2012-07-08T22:31:09Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > Homo sapiens sapiens And in one post, Giles gives the best answer available. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2012, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-taxonomic-classification/627506/35 "2012-07-08T22:37:51Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > And in one post, Giles gives the best answer available. Nah. He’s nothing more than a damned splitter! ---
**Author:** ![applebetty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4af34b/32.png) [@applebetty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/applebetty)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-taxonomic-classification/627506/36 "2012-07-09T02:23:28Z")
Still notus livingus upus tous herus potentialus. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-taxonomic-classification/627506/37 "2012-07-09T05:30:50Z")
> [@zweisamkeit](#): > > Yeah, and trying to Google to find a clear list of these types (presented in an educational/academic historical context that states it’s discredited and bullshit) only seems to bring up websites and forums with a racist/white supremacist bent. Color me surprised. :rolleyes: Forum Biodiversity (the main “physical anthropology” one) isn’t a racist much less a white supremacist forum. ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-taxonomic-classification/627506/38 "2012-07-09T06:16:47Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > Forum Biodiversity (the main “physical anthropology” one) isn’t a racist much less a white supremacist forum. Great! Any reason why you didn’t link that forum (or even _mention_ it at all) in the first place? :rolleyes: Without that forum name in my search query, it doesn’t show up at all in the first several pages of results, which is my limit when trying to do the work generally expected of the thread’s OP. Searching for “anthropology taxonomy” or “anthropological taxonomy” (without quotes) gave me some spam sites, the Wikipedia entry you already gave that doesn’t have the information, a stormfront forum, some [whitenewsnow.com](http://whitenewsnow.com) links, quite a few hits to forum threads on an “online Germanic community”\*, and a Wordpress post that starts with the ever-so-promising, “There is a fear of acknowledging race in today’s society.” - a pretty clear dog-whistle term for white supremacists. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-taxonomic-classification/627506/39 "2012-07-09T06:56:23Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Nah. He’s nothing more than a damned splitter! Yes – a lumper would go for _Simia sapiens_. ---
**Author:** ![the\_apples\_fell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@the\_apples\_fell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_apples_fell)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-taxonomic-classification/627506/40 "2012-07-09T07:33:28Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > Forum Biodiversity (the main “physical anthropology” one) isn’t a racist much less a white supremacist forum. I’ve posted there. The forum is not racist or white supremacist in orientation at all but there are some nutty posters there like everywhere else. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-taxonomic-classification/627506.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-taxonomic-classification/627506.md?page=3)