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    • There are estimated to be more than eight billion living humans. Although some scientists equate the term "humans" with all members of the genus Homo, in common usage it generally refers to Homo sapiens, the only extant member. See more

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    KingdomAnimalia
    PhylumChordata
    ClassMammalia
    Overview

    Humans (Homo sapiens, meaning 'thinking man' or 'wise man') or modern humans (sometimes Homo sapiens sapiens) are the most common and widespread species of primate, and the last surviving species of the genus … See more

    Etymology and definition

    All modern humans are classified into the species Homo sapiens, coined by Carl Linnaeus in his 1735 work Systema Naturae. The generic name Homo is a learned 18th-century derivation from Latin homō, which refers to hu… See more

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    Humans are apes (superfamily Hominoidea). The lineage of apes that eventually gave rise to humans first split from gibbons (family Hylobatidae) and orangutans (genus Pongo), then gorillas (genus Gorilla), and finally, … See more

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    Human evolution - Wikipedia

    Human evolution is the evolutionary process within the history of primates that led to the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species of the hominid family that includes all the great apes. [1]

     
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    Humans are a species of hominid, and chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans are their closest living relatives. Humans are mammals. They are …

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      Timeline of human evolution - Wikipedia

      The timeline of human evolution outlines the major events in the evolutionary lineage of the modern human species, Homo sapiens, throughout the history of life, beginning some 4 billion years ago down to recent evolution within H. …

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      Human history - Wikipedia

      Human history is the record of humankind from prehistory to the present. Modern humans evolved in Africa around 300,000 years ago and initially lived as hunter-gatherers. They migrated out …

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      Human taxonomy - Wikipedia

      Human taxonomy is the classification of the human species within zoological taxonomy. The systematic genus, Homo, is designed to include both anatomically modern humans and extinct varieties of archaic humans.

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      When did humans become humans?
      This process began at least 5 million years ago. We have fossils of two or three different groups of walking apes, and one was the ancestor of humans. The biological name for "human" or "man" is Homo. The modern human species is called Homo sapiens. "Sapiens" means "thought". Homo sapiens means "the thinking man".

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      Are all humans Homo sapiens?
      Today, all humans are classified as belonging to the species Homo sapiens. However, this is not the first species of homininae: the first species of genus Homo, Homo habilis, evolved in East Africa at least 2 million years ago, and members of this species populated different parts of Africa in a relatively short time.

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      What is human history?
      Human history is the record of humankind from prehistory to the present. Modern humans evolved in Africa around 300,000 years ago and initially lived as hunter-gatherers. They migrated out of Africa during the Last Ice Age and had spread across Earth's continental land except Antarctica by the end of the Ice Age 12,000 years ago.

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      What is a modern human?
      Modern humans are Homo sapiens, of which the only living subspecies is Homo sapiens sapiens. The other known subspecies, Homo sapiens idaltu, is now extinct.

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      What is the species of a human being?
      Human beings are classified in the genus Homo, especially the species H. sapiens. They are culture-bearing primates with a more highly developed brain and a resultant capacity for articulate speech and abstract reasoning.

      Human being | Mental Health, Emotions & Behavior | Britannica

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      Are We a 100% Homo sapiens?
      Genetically, we are not a 100% Homo sapiens only: non-African humans have on average around 2% Neanderthal DNA, and we are also known to have interbred with at least one other, now-extinct human species: the Denisovans.

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      Homo is the human genus. H. sapiens is the only surviving species of the genus Homo. Homo sapiens are sometimes called "anatomically modern humans". Schematic representation of the emergence of H. sapiens from earlier species …

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      Names for the human species - Wikipedia

      75 rows · In addition to the generally accepted taxonomic name Homo sapiens (Latin: 'wise man', Linnaeus 1758), other Latin-based names for the human species have been created to refer to various aspects of the human character.

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      Human history - Simple English Wikipedia, the free …

      Human history is the study of what the entire human race did in the past. It includes the time from prehistory to the present day. It is different from natural history. Modern human beings are called Homo sapiens ('wise man'). They …

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      Human being | Mental Health, Emotions & Behavior

      Dec 17, 2024 · human being, a culture-bearing primate classified in the genus Homo, especially the species H. sapiens. Human beings are anatomically similar and related to the great apes but are distinguished by a more highly …

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