Correct taxonomic classification?

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Ok, so I keep going on about this, but the idea of being the next or previous species of humans interests me greatly on the grounds that I can be racist, bigoted and arrogant about it, all for the reason of polite intellectual discussion

So if we are a new breed of humans, what would our species name be?

How about:

Homo Logicus - "Logical Man"
Homo Sapiens Sapiens Sapiens - "Wise Wise Wise Man"
Homo Technologicus - "Technological Man" (aka. The "Nerd")
Homo Omniens - "Man of All Things"
Homo Dolorus - "Depressed Man"

Anyone got any suggestions?

PS - This is all just for fun

Homo solitarus - Extinct due to inability to breed.

just a note I know you'll take no offence

In terms of taxonomy the second part should have a lower case letter shouldn't it?


I'm definately Homo technologicus.

I am Homo Technologicus.

I had another suggestion, but it probably belongs in the Adult Aspergers Folder.

Tim

No. It is misleading. People with AS perfer things that are logical, but they themselves are not necessarily logical. Logic is still a learned skill for us, and we can be just as emotionally driven and subjective as any NT, whether we want to admit that or not.



Too presumptious. Like logic, wisdom is acquired. And trust me, people with AS can be serious fools. Having AS does not make us immune to having our own heads up our a**es.



The problem is ALL homo sapiens have always been technological, in the sense we develop and use tools. Saying human beings are a technological race is actually far more appropriate than saying we're a "knowing" or "wise" race. See, we were originaly mislabelled as a species, and that only compouinds the problem.



Well, except for social skills, tact and emotional awareness, right?



Perhaps. But I think I prefer Homo Alienus - alien man, or more lit., man of another, man who doesn't belong, man who belongs with others, or man who is strange.

We can call ourselves Homo aspergius, or Aspergian Man. Homo dolorus fits too, due to the high occurence of depression in people with AS.

I don't know the lingo, but could someone translate "Contradictory Man" for me? Most Aspie difficulties seem to stem from inherent contradictions of one form or another.

I'll look that up. My latin/greek are somewhat rudimentary, however...

Maybe because we see the inherent paradox in socialising?

Hmmn, I think all mankind is contradictory...

How about travelling man?

I'd quite like to know "sociable hermit" in Latin, too.

Normally I ignore nitpicky disputes about grammar as being counterproductive to the song of language, but just this once, I gotta be aspie. As Scintillate pointed out, the secoun word in a scientific name, the species name, is never capitalized.

Aspie1 got it even more correct by putting it in italics. This is a rare case of a convention actually having a purpose, so everybody all over the world can be sure they are talking about the same organism.

Any additional name indicates a subspecies: Gorilla gorilla gorilla is the lowland gorilla and Iguana iguana iguana is the common iguana.

Hermit, don't worry about correct latin. A lot of scientific names are bogus phony latin, since their only purpose is to be unambiguous.

I'm still not sure how a sexually reproducing organism that almost never breeds could even be fantasized as a species, but this thread is just for fun, so on with the show.

I know it's way off-topic but I think this problem of aspies not being able to breed is a recent development, seems to me our aspie parents didn't have that much trouble. We used to be a very reproductive race, but if this new trend continues we may be close to our extintion.

Homo experticus
Homo obsessivus

We almost always seem to be expert in something, obsessed about something, be we genius, superior, average, or below average.

I can't believe somebody raised an important point in a thread like this, but that's a very interesting question.

I like H. sapiens superior, personally.

Homo Novus

New Man