Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-98.216.174.239-20150202232333/@comment-24891101-20150223065353

It's not that simple. It's still ambiguous whether Faunus are a sibling species within the genus or a subspecies. The biological species concept gets a bit fuzzy at this temporal resolution. And they'd still be either Homo faunus or Homo sapiens faunus, via the Principle of Priority. We can't change it, not unless it's in the wrong genus entirely.

As to the other thing: Not really, though I'm one to allow certain tradition arguments to sway me. And do note that my earlier comment was specifically in reference to the use of the word in human rights, for which there is no easily-substitutable alternative.