What is Human?
{{speciesbox | name = Human<ref name=msw3/> | image = Akha cropped hires.JPG <!--The choice of image has been discussed at length. Please don't change it without first obtaining consensus. Also used at Akha people (section Dress)--> | image_caption = An [[adult]] human [[man|male]] (left) and [[woman|female]] (right) from the [[Akha people|Akha tribe]] in Northern [[Thailand]] | fossil_range = 0.35 mya to present <small>Middle [[Pleistocene]] – Recent</small> | taxon = Homo sapiens | species = sapiens | authority = [[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], 1758 | subdivision_ranks = [[Subspecies]] | subdivision = {{plain list| *[[Extinct|{{extinct}}]]''[[Homo sapiens idaltu]]'' <small>White 2003</small> *''[[Homo sapiens sapiens]]''}} | range_map = World human population density map.png | range_map_caption = ''[[Homo sapiens]]'' population density | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name=IUCN>{{Cite journal | author = Global Mammal Assessment Team | title = ''Homo sapiens'' | journal = [[The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species]] | volume = 2008 | page = e.T136584A4313662 | date = 2008 | url = http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/136584/0 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T136584A4313662.en | accessdate = 14 January 2018 | url-status = live | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20171207092900/http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/136584/0 | archivedate = 7 December 2017 | df = dmy-all}}</ref> }} A '''human''' is a member of the [[species]] ''[[Homo sapiens]]'', which means 'wise man' in [[Latin]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bartleby.com/61/99/H0259900.html|title=homo sapiens|access-date=2008-07-18|archive-date=2007-11-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071127130030/http://www.bartleby.com/61/99/H0259900.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Carolus Linnaeus]] put humans in the [[mammal]]ian [[Order (biology)|order]] of [[primate]]s.<ref name=msw3>Groves Colin; Wilson D.E. & Reeder D.M. (eds) 2005. ''Mammal species of the world''. 3rd ed. Johns Hopkins University Press. {{ISBN|0-801-88221-4}}</ref