Taxonomy may refer to either a hierarchical classification of things, or the principles underlying the classification. Almost anything—animate objects, inanimate objects, places, and events—may be classified according to some taxonomic scheme.
Mathematically, a taxonomy is a tree structure of classifications for a given set of objects. At the top of this structure is a single classification—the root node—that applies to all objects. Nodes below this root are more specific classifications that apply to subsets of the total set of classified objects. So for instance in Carolus Linnaeus's Scientific classification of organisms, the root is the Organism (as this applies to all living things, it is implied rather than stated explicitly). Below this are the Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species, with various other ranks sometimes inserted.
Some have argued that the human mind naturally organizes its knowledge of the world into such systems. This view is often based on the epistemology of Immanuel Kant.
Anthropologists have observed that taxonomies are generally embedded in local cultural and social systems, and serve various social functions. Perhaps the most well-known and influential study of folk taxonomies is Emile Durkheim's The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. The theories of Kant and Durkheim also influenced Claude Levi-Strauss, the founder of anthropological structuralism. Levi-Strauss wrote two important books on taxonomies; Totemism and The Savage Mind.
Such taxonomies as those analyzed by Durkheim and Levi-Strauss are sometimes called folk taxonomies to distinguish them from scientific taxonomies that claim to be disembedded from social relations and thus objective and universal. The most well-known and widely used scientific taxonomy is Linnaean taxonomy which classifies living things and originated with Carolus Linnaeus. This taxonomic system is accessible from the article evolutionary tree.
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2006-10-10 20:11:37
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answered by sherijgriggs 6
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This is an important fact that lots of people don't know: we're homo sapiens, but we share that taxonomic category, so we're specified as being "wise wise" in the subspecies "homo s sapiens" (sapiens sapiens). Funny. Here's some more info:
Genus: homo
Species: homo sapiens (appeared around 500,000 years ago at the same time as homo sapiens neanderthalensis, which is why we are actually considered a -- )
Subspecies: homo sapiens sapiens
We could argue the taxonomy but genus and species are taxonomy too, so until a better system comes along scientists have settled on this.
2006-10-10 20:03:46
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answered by Em 5
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Humans scientific name is Homo sapiens.
Homo is the genus where humans belong to
Homo sapiens is from which species it belongs
2006-10-10 20:04:23
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answered by jj'sB-tfrz01 2
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Homosapien
2006-10-10 19:58:34
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answered by Anonymous
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Homo Sapiens[True Human] All other types, i.e Neanderthal ,etc were humanoids.
2006-10-10 20:09:24
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answered by skeetejacquelinelightersnumber7 5
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Homo Sapien
2006-10-10 20:02:07
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answered by Flip 3
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Homo sapiens
Genus: Homo
Species: sapiens
2006-10-10 20:04:23
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answered by novangelis 7
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There is nothing to ask?
Humans
2006-10-10 21:52:27
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answered by Frank 3
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