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W. C. O. Hill shows that differences within the family Hominidse are of three orders—generic, specific and subspecific. Brief specifications of the status of these are given, but it is pointed out that the members of the family are particularly liable to interspecific and intersubspecific hybridism. Nevertheless, a plea for the observance of the same rules of nomenclature as employed by zoologists is made, and an effort thus made to remove some of the confusion at present existing in anthropological literature. The misuse of the term "race" and the irregular usage of the title Homo sapiens are particularly to be regretted.
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Points from Foregoing Letters. Nature 145, 267 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145267a0
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