Clades and Classes

Classification Methods

• By ecology

• By form

• By ancestry

Hierarchical Taxonomy of Linnaeus

THE RANKS OF OUR SPECIESKINGDOM: ANIMALIA (all living things that develop from a blastula)

PHYLUM: VERTEBRATA (all animals that have articulated vertebrae)

CLASS: MAMMALIA: (all vertebrates that have hair and feed their young with milk, have a single dentary and three bones in the middle ear)

ORDER: PRIMATES (all mammals that have opposable thumbs, forward-facing eyes)FAMILY: HOMINIDAE (all primates that are large, >30-40 kg, tailless, and omnivorous, the Great Apes)

GENUS: Homo (hominids that are bipedal with very fine body hair)SPECIES: Homo sapiens (a species of Homo that has a chin and small face)

Animal Kingdom

Vertebrates

Mammals within Vertebrates

Mammals

Primates

Hominidae Tree

Hominini Tree

Types of Clades Used in the Phylocode