The scientific name for humans is homo sapiens. what genus do humans belong to

Biology · High School · Tue Nov 03 2020

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Humans belong to the genus Homo. The genus Homo is a Latin word which mean ‘man’. Humans are the only genus of Homo that is not extinct. Sapiens on the other hand is the Latin word for wise. Hence, the scientific name Homo sapiens means Wise man in Latin. The scientific name of humans was first coined by Carl Linnaeus. Carl Linnaeus introduced Taxonomy or the scientific classification of all organism.