Homo Sapiens Taxonomy
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 |
| superclass | 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 | Homo and Australopithecina | 5.8 |
| subtribe | Hominina | Members of the genus Homo | 3 |
| genus | Homo | Humans, neanderthals, homo erectus, and their direct ancestors | 2.5 |
| species | (archaic) Homo sapiens | Humans | 0.5 |
| sub-species | Homo sapiens sapiens | Modern humans | 0.2 |
Read more about this topic: Timeline Of Human Evolution