Natural selection

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Classification

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the action or process of classifying something according to shared qualities or characteristics.

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Taxonomy

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the branch of science concerned with classification, especially of organisms; systematics.

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Kingdom that humans belong to

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Animal

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Phylum that humans belong to

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Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species.

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Class that humans belong to

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Mammal

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Order that humans belong to

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Primate,Euarchonta,Therapsid

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Family that humans belong to

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Great apes

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Genus that humans belong to

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Humans

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Species that humans belong to

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Homo, including H. habilis Leakey and Leakey and H. erectus (Dubois

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Animalia

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or Metazoa, includes all animals. Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms, which are heterotrophic, meaning they obtain nutrition from organic sources.

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Chordata

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chordates possess a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle, and a post-anal tail, for at least some period of their life cycle.

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Mammalia

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Mammals are the vertebrates within the class Mammalia, a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles by the possession of a neocortex, hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands. Females of all mammal species nurse their young with milk, secreted from the mammary glands

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Primate

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A primate is a mammal of the order Primates. In taxonomy, primates include two distinct lineages, strepsirrhines and haplorhines. Primates arose from ancestors that lived in the trees of tropical forests; many primate characteristics represent adaptations to life in this challenging environmen

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Hominid

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, whose members are known as great apes or hominids, are a taxonomic family of primates that includes eight extant species in four genera

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Linnaeus

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Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the “father of modern taxonomy”.

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Dichotomous Key

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is a tool that allows the user to determine the identity of items in the natural world, such as trees, wildflowers, mammals, reptiles, rocks, and fish.

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Domain

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a specified sphere of activity or knowledge.

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Archaebacteria

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microorganisms that are similar to bacteria in size and simplicity of structure but radically different in molecular organization. They are now believed to constitute an ancient intermediate group between the bacteria and eukaryotes

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Bacteria

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a member of a large group of unicellular microorganisms that have cell walls but lack organelles and an organized nucleus, including some that can cause disease.

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Protista

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is an heterogeneous group of eukaryotic organisms. That is, the nucleus is surrounded by a nuclear envelope, and they contain organized plastids and mitochondria. Most protists are unicellular, but there are some relatively simple multicellular forms.

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Fungi

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is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified as a kingdom, fungi, which is separate from the other eukaryotic life kingdoms of plants and animals

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Plantae

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Plants are mainly multicellular, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, plants were treated as one of two kingdoms including all living things that were not animals, and all algae and fungi were treated as plants