The Week contest: New human

This week's question: A new Washington University study has found that teens now spend about eight hours a day and adults 6.5 hours sitting down, due to heavy internet use and TV viewing. Please come up with a scientific name to describe the less upright, mostly seated species of human that appears to have evolved in recent years.
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THE WINNER: "Prone Magnon Man"
Paul Anderson, Franklin, Tennessee
SECOND PLACE: "Homo no' mo' erectus"
Jon Plotkin, Hull, Massachusetts
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THIRD PLACE: "Homo supinians"
Phyllis Klein, New York City
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"Nostandathal Man"
Darrell G. Clay, Searcy, Arkansas
"Sitdown Man"
Doug Johnston, Erie, Pennsylvania
"Bipads"
Barbara Wood Borne, Wallingford, Connecticut
"Coucho Potatiens"
Mark Jakusovszky, Colorado Springs
"Wii-anderthal"
Tim Mistele, Coral Gables, Florida
"Amazon Primate"
Erin Mistele, Peapack, New Jersey
"Homo stay-piens"
David Buch, Langhorne, Pennsylvania
"Hulu sapiens"
Greg Mistele, Peapack, New Jersey
"The Bottom Dwellers"
Jennifer Kitchin, New Smyrna Beach, Florida
"Slo-mo sapiens"
Ken Liebman, Williston, Vermont
"Homo s-app-iens"
Natalie Richeimer, Los Angeles
"Rearenderthal"
Keith Maurice, Arlington, Texas
"Homo Netflixien"
Dave Schoo, Pflugerville, Texas
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