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Hierarchical Taxonomy of Linnaeus
THE RANKS OF OUR SPECIESKINGDOM: ANIMALIA (all living things that develop from a blastula)
PHYLUM: VERTEBRATA (all animals that have articulated vertebrae)
CLASS: MAMMALIA: (all vertebrates that have hair and feed their young with milk, have a single dentary and three bones in the middle ear)
ORDER: PRIMATES (all mammals that have opposable thumbs, forward-facing eyes)FAMILY: HOMINIDAE (all primates that are large, >30-40 kg, tailless, and omnivorous, the Great Apes)
GENUS: Homo (hominids that are bipedal with very fine body hair)SPECIES: Homo sapiens (a species of Homo that has a chin and small face)