Playing with both scientific taxonomy and modern slang in one prehistoric package! This meme cleverly combines paleoanthropology with a sexual pun by featuring what appears to be a Homo erectus reconstruction declaring "I'm no Homo Sapien, I'm homo, and erect as F***." It's a brilliant wordplay on the scientific name Homo erectus (meaning "upright man"), which existed from about 1.9 million to 110,000 years ago. The species name gets reinterpreted through modern terminology—"homo" as slang for homosexual and "erect" referring to... well, you know exactly what it's referring to. Evolution has never been this inappropriately hilarious!
Homo Erectus: Standing Proud In Scientific Taxonomy
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