Eighteenth-century taxonomist Carl Linnaeus defined over 10,000 species during his career. Few gave him as little trouble as our own. Homo, nosce te ipsum - Man, know thyself -he wrote in 1735, presumably suggesting that no one could seriously confuse our species with another. Around a century after he penned this definition-cum-decree, the first Neanderthal fossils turned up. It was an early sign that human taxonomy was a lot more complicated than Linnaeus suspected.
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机译：十八世纪的分类学家卡尔·林奈（Carl Linnaeus）在其职业生涯中定义了10,000多种物种。很少有人给他带来像我们这样的麻烦。 Homo，nosce te ipsum-人，知道你自己-他在1735年写道，大概暗示着没有人可以将我们的物种与另一物种严重地混淆。在他写下这个定义和法令大约一个世纪之后，出现了第一个尼安德特人化石。这是一个早期的迹象，表明人类分类学比Linnaeus所怀疑的要复杂得多。
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