Ananas comosus is the Latin or scientific name of the plant. Ananas is the genus. Pineapple is the common name. It's like Boa constrictor imperator is the scientific name of what is commonly called a boa. On the other hand, a Burmese python's Latin name is Python molurus bivittatus, but most people call them Burmese pythons, or just burms. No mystery here.

Like Homo sapiens are the only living species in the Homo genus of bipedal primates having an extention called penis, commonly known as 'little brain that dick-tates mens thoughts' ? :D

Btw, I recently qualified with a degree in Randomology.

Pineapple

Anolis carolinensis

Homo sapiens sapiens is our currently genus with species and subspecies I believe. I remember reading some academic papers once back in the late 90s about the aborigines of Australia being a separate offshoot and not truly the same species/subspecies as us.

The scientific names aren't always that closely tied to the common names, and sometimes are cause for confusion even... such as Haemophilus influenzae for example.

Interdasting! :D

In paleoanthropology, the recent African origin of modern humans is the most widely accepted model describing the origin and early dispersal of anatomically modern humans. The theory is called the (Recent) Out-of-Africa model in the popular press, and academically the recent single-origin hypothesis (RSOH), Replacement Hypothesis, and Recent African Origin (RAO) model. The hypothesis that humans have a single origin (monogenesis) was published in Charles Darwin's Descent of Man (1871). The concept was speculative until the 1980s, when it was corroborated by a study of present-day mitochondrial DNA, combined with evidence based on physical anthropology of archaic specimens.

Genetic and fossil evidence is interpreted to show that archaic Homo sapiens evolved to anatomically modern humans solely in Africa, between 200,000 and 150,000 years ago, that members of one branch of Homo sapiens left Africa by between 125,000 and 60,000 years ago, and that over time these humans replaced earlier human populations such as Neanderthals and Homo erectus. The date of this original "out of Africa" migration has mostly been dated to between 70,000 and 60,000 years ago, but a 2011 study suggested that an early wave of migration may have taken place as early as 125,000 years ago.

The recent single origin of modern humans in East Africa is the predominant position held within the scientific community. There are differing theories on whether there was a single exodus or several. A multiple dispersal model involves the Southern Dispersal theory, which has gained support in recent years from genetic, linguistic and archaeological evidence. A growing number of researchers also suspect that "long-neglected North Africa", was the original home of the modern humans who first trekked out of the continent.

The major competing hypothesis is the multiregional origin of modern humans, which envisions a wave of Homo sapiens migrating from Africa and interbreeding with local Neanderthal populations in multiple regions of the globe. Most multiregionalists still view Africa as a major wellspring of human genetic diversity, but allow a much greater role for hybridization.

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Much. You coming to the graduation? :D

People will never accept the classification of Homo sapiens to change. Many snakes and lizards are considered subspecies just by the color of their skin. If you can look at a 6'5" Swedish person and a 4'9" pygmy from Africa and say they are the same subspecies, you have to be blind.

I didn't make the chart, but in pina colladas I thought that meant coconut. :confused: