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TIL of Carl Linnaeus, the father of modern taxonomy. His remains are the type specimen for Homo Sapiens. If any human evolves to such a point as to where they can no longer be described as being the same species as Carl's remains, they will no longer count as Homo Sapiens and will be a new species.

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