Homo (genus)

Homo Temporal range: Piacenzian-Present, 2.865–0 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Reconstruction of Homo erectus georgicus (Élisabeth Daynès, Musée de Préhistoire, Quinson, France)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Suborder:	Haplorhini
Family:	Hominidae
Tribe:	Hominini
Genus:	Homo Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758
Species
Homo sapiens †Homo erectus †Homo floresiensis †Homo habilis †Homo heidelbergensis †Homo naledi †Homo neanderthalensis other species or subspecies suggested, see below.
Synonyms
Synonyms Africanthropus Dreyer, 1935 Atlanthropus Arambourg, 1954 Cyphanthropus Pycraft, 1928 Pithecanthropus Dubois, 1894 Protanthropus Haeckel, 1895 Sinanthropus Black, 1927 Tchadanthropus Coppens, 1965 Telanthropus Broom & Anderson 1949

Homo sapiens
†Homo erectus
†Homo floresiensis
†Homo habilis
†Homo heidelbergensis
†Homo naledi
†Homo neanderthalensis
other species or subspecies suggested, see below.

Homo is the genus that comprises the species Homo sapiens, which includes modern humans, as well as several extinct species classified as ancestral to or closely related to modern humans, most notably Homo erectus. The genus is between 2 and 3 million years old, taken to emerge with the appearance of Homo habilis. It is derived from the genus Australopithecus, which itself had previously split from the lineage of Pan, the chimpanzees. Taxonomically, Homo is the only genus assigned to the subtribe Hominina which, with the subtribes Australopithecina and Panina, comprise the tribe Hominini (see evolutionary tree below). All species of the genus Homo plus those species of the australopithecines that arose after the split from Pan are called hominins.