Biology

Taxonomy of Human Beings

Taxonomic rank	Name	Common name	MYA
Domain	Eukaryote	Cells with a nucleus	2,100
Kingdom	Animalia	Animals	590
Phylum	Chordata	Vertebrates and closely related invertebrates	530
Subphylum	Vertebrata	Vertebrates	505
Superclass	Tetrapoda	Tetrapods	395
Unranked	Amniota	Amniotes, Tetrapods that are fully terrestrially-adapted	340
Class	Mammalia	Mammals	220
Subclass	Theriiformes	Mammals that birth live young (i.e. non-egg-laying)
Infraclass	Eutheria	Placental mammals (i.e. non-marsupials)	125
Magnorder	Boreoeutheria	Supraprimates, bats, whales, most hoofed mammals, and most carnivorous mammals
Superorder	Euarchontoglires	Supraprimates (primates, rodents, rabbits, tree shrews, and colugos)	100
Grand order	Euarchonta	Primates, colugos and tree shrews
Mirorder	Primatomorpha	Primates and colugos	79.6
Order	Primates	Primates	75
Suborder	Haplorrhini	"Dry-nosed" (literally, "simple-nosed") primates (apes, monkeys, andtarsiers)	40
Infraorder	Simiiformes	"Higher" primates (or Simians) (apes, old-world monkeys, and new-world monkeys)
Parvorder	Catarrhini	"Downward-nosed" primates (apes and old-world monkeys)	30
Superfamily	Hominoidea	Apes	28
Family	Hominidae	Great apes(Humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orang-utans)	15
Subfamily	Homininae	Humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas	8
Tribe	Hominini	Genera Homo and Australopithecus	5.8
Subtribe	Hominina	Contains only the Genus Homo	2.5
Genus	Homo	Humans	2.5
Species	(Archaic) Homo sapiens	Modern humans	0.5
Subspecies	Homo sapiens sapiens	Fully anatomically modern humans	0.2