Genealogy - HUMAN TAXONOMY

HUMANS ARE A SINGLE SPECIES

by Joelle Steele

There is no such thing as "race" when it comes to humans. We are all from the same species: Homo sapiens.

Kingdom-Animalia
Phylum-Chordata
Class-Mammalia
Order-Primates
Suborder-Haplohini
Infraorder-Simiiformes
Family-Hominidae
Subfamily-Homininae
Tribe-Hominini
Genus-Homo
Species-Homo Sapiens

A “species” is a group of people who are capable of mating with each other and reproducing.
Humans are a single species of the Hominid Family, which includes the Great Apes.
Humans are in the Genus Homo, and  Species Homo sapiens.
"Homo" is Latin for human or man
"Sapiens" means sapient or wise.
Humans are the only living species in the Homo genus.
Several other species of Homo used to exist but all went extinct long ago (including Homo erectus).