How do you pronounce this? And does this man (well, not quite) have a plural? In other words, can you put a genus into a plural form?

If you spoke of Carya tomentosa (type of hickory), could you refer to the 'Caryas'? Or whatever would be the Latin plural?

Same for Homo sapiens. Could you refer to the Homos? Or whatever the latinate plural would be? And is Latinate capitalized? (I don't think it is.)

Anyway, will you Latin people please respond to this post because my kids are studying various ages of man (or apes before men) in history and I have no idea how to respond to their questions and I figured you would.

If you don't believe in synchronicity, you should. It was approximately three weeks ago that I randomly began to study an old N'tl Geo chart on the ages of man--and, lo and behold, my kids are studying about those ages in history. Only I can't answer their questions on genus and species yet.