What would Humans be classified as if we were Avian?

This question has nothing to do with science. It has to do with language.

The word "Homo" from "Homo Sapiens" simply comes from the Latin for human. So If humans were birds... they could still be called "Homo Sapiens" because we are still calling them humans. Of course in this world... seagulls would be hominids and gorillas would not.

The word "Avian" comes from the Latin for "wing". So Homo Sapiens as birds would still be Avians too since they would presumably have wings.

It is your world, you can name things as the culture you are creating would choose to name them.

Thank you. I thought the Homo Sapient was a Science thing along with Latin. I truly know very little of Science. Thank you for helping and educating me.

Hmmm, writing a science fiction book without knowing much about science, sounds like trying to make a ham sandwich without the ham. It might not sell very well.

I don't know rosborne. Science fiction is fiction, and it is probably a good way to research science.

You can buy ham without being a butcher yourself.

Anyhow, most science fiction these days is lots more fiction than science.

On the other hand, they could be given some kind of bird genus followed by "sapiens".

For example, I think emperor penguins are Aptenodytes forsteri.

If the species is descended from emperor penguins, it could be called Aptenodytes sapiens.

If descended from some other kind of bird, substitute the proper genus for that particular bird.

I can only speak for myself, but to me, science fiction without the science is just fiction. And if it's bad science, then it's Fantasy (a little "dig" there at Fantasy ).

Science fiction with the science is still "just" fiction.

I prefer "Speculative Fiction"

Such as?

And beating a dead horse is still just beating a dead horse. I think we've gone as far as we should go with this.

Well, there we go.

Interesting question, i would like to discuss this interesting argument with someone