A cannibal is a being that eats it's own kind.
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The genus name for humans is Homo because we belong to the Homo genus of primates, which includes modern humans and their close extinct relatives. The species name for humans is sapiens, which means wise or discerning in Latin, thus "Homo sapiens" refers to the wise or discerning human.
People who eat people are called cannibals, the term used to describe the practice of eating human flesh is cannibalism.The terms (Caníbales)come from the Spanish explorers' name for the Caribs, a tribe in the West Indies who practiced cannibalism.
Humans are known (taxonomically speaking) as Homo sapiens, which is Latin for wise man or knowing man.See the 'not-so-missing link' listed below for more information:
From my understanding, that would be homo sapiens sapiens, or "wise wise man." That's what our generation is called anyway. From that logic, I suppose "man" would be homo.
The proper name for humans is Homo sapiens.