Most plants and animals have popular names that can vary from place to place. So a name needed to be given that would be recognized everywhere. It was decided so use Latin for the scientific names, as it was the language use centuries ago by learned people. Carl linnaeus was the man who established the modern scientific method for naming plants and animals. Scientific names are in two parts. The first part is the generic name, which describes a group of related living things. The second name is the specific name, which applies only to that living thing. This specific name may describe the living thing, or it could include the name of the person who discovered it.
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The latin name for a human is homo sapien, meaning 'thinking man'. A fossil form of homo, or man is homo habilis (tool-using man).
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