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The cladistic line of descent (taxonomic rank) of Homo sapiens (modern humans) is as follows: Taxonomic rank Name Common name Millions of years ago Domain Eukaryota 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 Grandorder 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, and tarsiers) 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, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans) 15 Subfamily Homininae Humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, 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 |
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