User:Ichthyovenator/Homo list
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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.