Three truths
- Timed
- Our species: about 300,000 years · the last 0.007% of life's story
- Named
- ≈1 named living species · under 0.001% of all named
- Weighed
- ≈0.06 Gt C · 0.01% of all life's carbon
Eukaryotes · animals · species
Humans (you are here)
Homo sapiens
Living
Our own species. Humans are one small, young branch of the primates; our line split from that of chimpanzees and bonobos several million years ago.
Every person alive belongs to one young species.
Key characteristics
- Walk upright on two legs
- Large brain for body size
- Complex language and culture
- Habitat
- Every continent
- Branched off
- About 600 thousand years ago (approximate)
- Parent lineage
- Our genus, Homo
Classification
- First common ancestor (LUCA)
- › Archaea
- › Asgard archaea
- › Heimdall and complex-cell line
- › Complex cells (eukaryotes)
- › Amorphea
- › Opisthokonts
- › Holozoa
- › Animals
- › Parahoxozoa
- › Bilaterians
- › Deuterostomes
- › Chordates
- › Vertebrates
- › Jawed vertebrates
- › Bony vertebrates
- › Lobe-finned vertebrates
- › Four-limbed vertebrates
- › Amniotes
- › Synapsids
- › Therapsids
- › Mammals
- › Live-bearing mammals
- › Placental mammals
- › Boreoeutherians
- › Euarchontoglires
- › Primates
- › Monkeys and apes
- › Old World monkeys and apes
- › Apes
- › Great apes
- › African apes
- › Chimpanzee and human lines
- › Our genus, Homo
- › Humans (you are here)
Sources
- Human (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia
- TimeTree: the timescale of life · TimeTree
- Open Tree of Life · Open Tree of Life
- Tree of Life Web Project · Tree of Life Web Project