Clades and Classes
Classification Methods By ecology By form By ancestry
Hierarchical Taxonomy of Linnaeus THE RANKS OF OUR SPECIES KINGDOM: 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)
Animal Kingdom
Vertebrates
Mammals within Vertebrates
Mammals
Primates
Hominidae Tree
Hominini Tree
Types of Clades Used in the Phylocode