Homo troglodytes

New Latin, from Latin homo (“human being”) + troglodytes (“cave-dwelling”). The original name was coined by Linnaeus in 1758, and was revived as a reassignment of Pan troglodytes into the genus Homo based on the idea that chimpanzees share essentially human qualities.

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1. (obsolete) A species of supposed troglodytic men, now thought to be legendary, sometimes identified with the orangutan.
   • 1827, Wilhelm Hauff, Märchen-Almanach. Novellen: Othello, Die Sängerin. Die letzten Ritter von Marienburg

     Das ist ja ein Affe, der Homo Troglodytes Linnaei; ich gebe sogleich sechs Taler für ihn, wenn Sie mir ihn ablaffen, und balge ihn aus für mein Kabinett.

   • 1995, Anderson, Karen L, Sociology : a Critical Introduction, Nelson Canada →ISBN

     Homo troglodytes was reputed to live in forests, to be nocturnal, and to communicate only in hisses

2. (neologism) An alternative name for Pan troglodytes, the chimpanzee.
   • 2013, Jim E Murphy, Confessions of a ChimpManZee, Portraits of Earth Press

     There were now three known species of humans on the planet: Homo sapiens, Homo troglodytes, and Homo paniscus.

   • 2014, Russell H. Tuttle, Apes and Human Evolution, Harvard University Press →ISBN, page 27

     Their scheme mirrors that of Diamond, who proposed that, as a third chimpanzee, Homo sapiens is congeneric with Homo troglodytes and Homo paniscus.