Origins

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This article is about modern humans. For other human species, see Homo. For other uses, see Human (disambiguation).
Human[1]
Temporal range: 0.195–0 Ma
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Pleistocene – Recent

Conservation status

Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[2]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Hominidae
Tribe: Hominini
Genus: Homo
Species: H. sapiens
Binomial name
Homo sapiens
Linnaeus, 1758
Subspecies
†Homo sapiens idaltu
Homo sapiens sapiens

Range of Homo sapiens (green)
Synonyms
Species synonymy[1][show]
Humans (known taxonomically as Homo sapiens,[3][4] Latin for "wise man" or "knowing man")[5] are the only living species in the Homo genus. Anatomically modern humans originated in Africa about 200,000 years ago, reaching full behavioral modernity around 50,000 years ago.[6]