AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Humans are classified as mammals because humans have the same distinctive features (listed above) found in all members of this large group. Humans are also classified within: the subgroup of mammals called primates; and the subgroup of primates called apes and in particular the ‘Great Apes’

Detailed explanation-2: -Our family is the hominid, within the order primate, within the class mammal, within the phylum chordate, within the kingdom animalia, within the domain Eukarya.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mammals include humans and all other animals that are warm-blooded vertebrates (vertebrates have backbones) with hair. They feed their young with milk and have a more well-developed brain than other types of animals.

Detailed explanation-4: -Humans, or Homo sapiens, are members of the kingdom Animalia, phylum Chordata, class Mammalia, and the order Primates.

Detailed explanation-5: -Mammals are a group of vertebrate animals. Examples of mammals include rats, cats, dogs, deer, monkeys, apes, bats, whales, dolphins, and humans. Figure 6.2 shows some examples of mammals.