6 KINGDOMS
Classifying Living Things
The categories have changed and more have been added. Today, eight categories help people understand how living things are related to each other.
How Scientists Classify You!
Kingdom: Animal
Phylum: Chordate (animal with a spinal cord)
Subphylum: Vertebrate (chordate with a backbone)
Class: Mammal (vertebrate with hair and one bone in lower jaw, warm-blooded, babies drink mother's milk)
(primate that walks upright, has a flate face, looks forward, sees color, has hands and feet that perform many tasks)
Genus: Homo (talks, spends long childhood learning about the world)
species: Homo sapiens ("wise man" - little body hair, high forehead, chin that juts out)
Humans are the only hominids left on the earth.
The rest have died out or become extinct.
