Homo sapiens

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Homo sapiens 
species of mammal
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Instance of
Has part(s)
Start time
  • 200th millennium BC
Source of energy
Speed
  • 12.42 m/s (maximum, footspeed)
Different from
Said to be the same ashuman
Common name
Taxonomy
ClassMammalia
SubclassTheria
InfraclassPlacentalia
MagnorderBoreoeutheria
SuperorderEuarchontoglires
GrandorderEuarchonta
MirorderPrimatomorpha
OrderPrimates
SuborderHaplorhini
InfraorderSimiiformes
ParvorderCatarrhini
SuperfamilyHominoidea
FamilyHominidae
SubfamilyHomininae
GenusHomo
SpeciesHomo sapiens
Taxon authorCarl Linnaeus, 1758
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Wikidata Q15978631
GND ID: 4038639-9
Library of Congress authority ID: sh85080292
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 13338423d
BNCF Thesaurus ID: 7104
National Library of Spain ID: XX525144
NCBI taxonomy ID: 9606
ITIS TSN: 180092
Encyclopedia of Life ID: 327955
Fossilworks taxon ID: 83088
GBIF taxon ID: 2436436
WoRMS-ID for taxa: 1455977
MSW ID: 12100795
ZooBank ID for name or act: 58D31D52-713D-44B4-9FE9-CB2D9249C422
New Zealand Organisms Register ID: d83185ac-1aa6-4f59-8645-fe8c040857b3
EPPO Code: HOMXSA
iNaturalist taxon ID: 43584
NBN System Key: NHMSYS0000376773
BOLD Systems taxon ID: 12439
ADW taxon ID: Homo_sapiens
IRMNG ID: 10857762
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In taxonomy, Homo sapiens is the only extant human species. The name is Latin for "wise man" and was introduced in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus (who is himself also the type specimen).

Extinct species of the genus Homo include Homo erectus, extant during roughly 1.9 to 0.4 million years ago, and a number of other species (by some authors considered subspecies of either H. sapiens or H. erectus). H. sapiens idaltu (2003) is a proposed extinct subspecies of H. sapiens.

The age of speciation of H. sapiens out of ancestral H. erectus (or an intermediate species such as Homo antecessor) is estimated to have been roughly 315,000 years ago. Sustained archaic admixture is known to have taken place both in Africa and (following the recent Out-Of-Africa expansion) in Eurasia, between about 100,000 and 30,000 years ago.

The term anatomically modern humans (AMH) is used to distinguish H. sapiens having an anatomy consistent with the range of phenotypes seen in contemporary humans from varieties of extinct archaic humans. This is useful especially for times and regions where anatomically modern and archaic humans co-existed, for example, in Paleolithic Europe.

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DomainEukaryota • RegnumAnimalia • PhylumChordata • SubphylumVertebrata • InfraphylumGnathostomata • SuperclassisTetrapoda • ClassisMammalia • SubclassisTheria • InfraclassisEutheria • OrdoPrimates • SubordoHaplorrhini • InfraordoSimiiformes • ParvordoCatarrhini • SuperfamiliaHominoidea • FamiliaHominidae • GenusHomo • Species: Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758
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