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Human
Fossil range: Pleistocene - Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Hominidae
Genus: Homo
Species: H. sapiens
Subspecies: H. s. sapiens
Trinomial name
Homo sapiens sapiens
Linnaeus, 1758

The modern human (Homo sapiens sapiens, Latin: "the wise man"[1]) is the only living relative in the genus Homo. The closest relatives within the family Hominidae (the great apes) are the Chimpanzees. Humans distinguish themselves from all other primates by their erect posture, bipedal gait and greater use of language and technology.

Humans are very successful and have colonized all continents of the earth, though some, such as Thomas Malthus, fear that humans are growing beyond the ability of the environment to support them. See Demography for more on human population growth.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Homo+sapiens
    • From website: Homo sapiens: 1802, in William Turton's translation of Linnæus, coined in Mod.L. from L. homo "man" (technically "male human," but in logical and scholastic writing "human being") + sapiens, prp. of sapere "be wise." Used since in various L. or pseudo-L. combinations intended to emphasize some aspect of humanity, cf. Henri Bergson's Homo faber "man the tool-maker," in "L'Evolution Créatrice" (1907). Homo as a genus of the order Primates is first recorded 1797.
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