{"id":65,"date":"2006-12-11T21:32:08","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T21:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/taxonomic-classification-of-modern-humans\/"},"modified":"2006-12-11T21:32:08","modified_gmt":"2006-12-11T21:32:08","slug":"taxonomic-classification-of-modern-humans","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/taxonomic-classification-of-modern-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxonomic Classification of Modern Humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Domain: <\/em><strong>Eukarya<\/strong> (as opposed to Archaea or Bacteria)<\/p>\n<p><em>Kingdom: <\/em><strong>Animalia\/Metazoa <\/strong>(as opposed to plants, fungi, or single-celled stuff) <\/p>\n<p><em>Sub-kingdom:<\/em> <strong>Eumetazoa<\/strong> (most animals except sponges and placozoa)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bilateria<\/strong> (Eumetazoans with a body plan that features bilateral symmetry.) Bilateria is neither a sub-kingdom or superphylum so I&#8217;m not really sure what the correct term for this grouping is.<\/p>\n<p><em>Super-phylum:<\/em> <strong>Deuterostomia<\/strong> (These are Bilateria whose first body cavity created during embryonic development is the anus.)<\/p>\n<p><em>Phylum:<\/em> <strong>Chordata<\/strong> (These are members of Deuterostomia with a nerve cord running down their dorsal surface.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Craniata<\/strong> (Chordates with a skull.) Craniata is neither a phylum nor a sub-phylum, so I&#8217;m not really sure what the correct term for this grouping is.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sub-phylum:<\/em> <strong>Vertebrata<\/strong> (Members of Craniata with a spine.)<\/p>\n<p><em>Class: <\/em><strong>Mammalia <\/strong>(Mammals, i.e. warm-blooded critters with fur\/hair and mammary glands)<\/p>\n<p><em>Sub-class: <\/em><strong>Theria <\/strong>(mammals who give birth to live young, as opposed to birthing shelled eggs)<\/p>\n<p><em>Infra-class:<\/em> <strong>Eutheria\/Placentalia<\/strong> (Placental mammals)<\/p>\n<p>Subcohort <strong>Exafroplacentalia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Magnorder: <\/em><strong>Boreoeutheria<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Super-order: <\/em><strong>Euarchontoglires <\/strong>(includes rodents and primates)<\/p>\n<p><em>Grand-order: <\/em><strong>Euarchonta<\/strong> (these are the tree shrews, lemurs, and primates)<\/p>\n<p><em>Order: <\/em><strong>Primates <\/strong>(simians and prosimians)<\/p>\n<p><em>Sub-order:<\/em> <strong>Haplorrhini<\/strong> (The Latin translation is dry-nosed. This distinguishes them from the curly-nosed and wet-nosed primates)<\/p>\n<p><em>Infraorder: <\/em><strong>Simiiformes\/Simians<\/strong> (monkeys and apes)<\/p>\n<p><em>Parvorder:<\/em> <strong>Catarrhini<\/strong> (apes and old-world monkeys)<\/p>\n<p><em>Super-family: <\/em><strong>Hominoidea <\/strong>(apes)<\/p>\n<p><em>Family:<\/em> <strong>Homonidae\/Hominids<\/strong> (the great apes)<\/p>\n<p><em>Sub-family:<\/em> <strong>Homoninae<\/strong> (humans, gorillas, and chimps, but not orangutans.)<\/p>\n<p><em>Tribe: <\/em><strong>Homonini <\/strong>(humans, chimps, and bonobos, but not gorillas.)<\/p>\n<p><em>Genus: <\/em><strong>Homo<\/strong> (modern humans, and their fossil cousins.)<\/p>\n<p><em>Species:<\/em> <strong>homo sapiens<\/strong> (humans)<\/p>\n<p><em>Sub-species: <\/em><strong>homo sapiens sapiens<\/strong> (modern humans, not including Neanderthals, Heidelberg man, Rhodesian man, or other archaic humans.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Domain: Eukarya (as opposed to Archaea or Bacteria) Kingdom: Animalia\/Metazoa (as opposed to plants, fungi, or single-celled stuff) Sub-kingdom: Eumetazoa (most animals except sponges and placozoa) Bilateria (Eumetazoans with a body plan that features bilateral symmetry.) Bilateria is neither a sub-kingdom or superphylum so I&#8217;m not really sure what the correct term for this grouping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-65","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}