AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -All people living today belong to the species Homo sapiens. We evolved only relatively recently but with complex culture and technology have been able to spread throughout the world and occupy a range of different environments.

Detailed explanation-2: -The species that you and all other living human beings on this planet belong to is Homo sapiens. During a time of dramatic climate change 300, 000 years ago, Homo sapiens evolved in Africa.

Detailed explanation-3: -Modern zoological taxonomy was developed by Carl Linnaeus during the 1730s to 1750s. He named the human species as Homo sapiens in 1758, as the only member species of the genus Homo, divided into several subspecies corresponding to the great races.

Detailed explanation-4: -Homo sapiens, (Latin: “wise man”) the species to which all modern human beings belong. Homo sapiens is one of several species grouped into the genus Homo, but it is the only one that is not extinct. See also human evolution.

Detailed explanation-5: -Homo sapiens sapiens are the subspecies coming from Homo sapiens; they comprise modern humans only. The scientific name of humans is Homo sapiens sapiens. Homo sapiens sapiens is the definition of modern Homo sapiens.