Question

Scientific name of human is
A. Homo naledi
B. Homo habilis
C. Homo erectus
D. Homo sapiens

Answer 1

Hint: Human beings are anatomically similar and analogous to the great apes, but are differentiated by a more highly developed brain and a consequent capacity for articulate speech and abstract reasoning. Human beings are a culture-bearing primate classified in the genus Homo, especially the species.

Complete Answer:
- Human beings often show a pronounced erectness of the carriage of the body that frees the hands for use as manipulative members. However, some of these attributes are not entirely unique to humans.
- The difference between humans and the great apes (orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and bonobos) in cognition, as in anatomy, is much smaller than was once believed, as they have been shown to possess a range of advanced cognitive skills previously thought to be limited to humans.
- Humans are a group of highly intelligent apes (Homo sapiens). Traditionally, humans were thought to be the only recent members of the Hominidae tribe, but recent studies suggest that chimpanzees and bonobos are more closely related to humans than gorillas and orangutans, and that about seven million and six million years ago, the last common ancestor between the chimpanzee and human lines existed.
- Human evolution is marked by a number of changes in anatomy, growth, physiology, and actions that have taken place since the split between humans and chimpanzees' last common ancestor.

Among these adaptations, the most significant is:
1. Bipedalism
2. Enhanced brain size
3. Ontogeny prolonged (gestation and infancy)
4. Decreased (neotenic) sexual dimorphism

The correct Answer is option (D) Homo sapiens.

Note: Both humans have been divided into classes: Mammalia and Phylum: Chordata, according to taxonomy. Homo sapiens is the scientific term for human beings and it was invented in the year 1758 by Carl Linnaeus. The Latin word, which refers to a wise man, was derived from Homo sapiens. Homo refers to a human being who is wise or intelligent.