How Should Homosapiens Be Written?
How Should Homosapiens Be Written? Common names are not capitalized and not italicized. Correct: Homo sapiens (humans) walk upright. Humans like music. If a taxon is made common, such as Hominidae What is the correct binomial nomenclature for humans? Thus, both parts of the binomial name Homo sapiens are Latin words, meaning “wise” (sapiens) “human/man”