Carl Linnaeus, the famous Swedish Enlightenment scientist, classified a species of beings— Homo monstrous—monsters that were delineated from human beings. Homo monstrous was then divided into three types of monsters— Homo troglodytes, Homo caudatus, and Homo marinus. Linnaeus influenced later generations of scientists, including those who traveled on voyages of exploration. Many monsters were purportedly observed on these voyages, including some in regions of the globe that Europeans only “discovered” in the fifteenth century and after.

QUESTION: How did Linnaeus's Homo monstrous classification reconcile with his later taxonomic revisions of human varieties?

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