Human/Related Articles

Parent topics

Anthropology [r]: The holistic study of humankind; from the Greek words anthropos ("human") and logia ("study"). ^[e]
Biology [r]: The science of life — of complex, self-organizing, information-processing systems living in the past, present or future. ^[e]

Hominid [r]: A reduction of the term Hominidae that refers to all of the fossil and living bipedal apes including the Australopithecines, fossil members of the genus Homo and living humans. ^[e]

Africa [r]: Continent stretching over the equator, hosting deserts, tropical jungles and savannah as well as over fifty nations; population about 900,000,000. ^[e]
Ape [r]: Tail-less primates in Africa and Eurasia, e.g. humans, orang-utans and chimpanzees. ^[e]
Brain [r]: The core unit of a central nervous system. ^[e]
Chimpanzee [r]: An ape home to western and central Africa. ^[e]
Consciousness [r]: Sense of awareness of self and of the environment. ^[e]
Human anatomy [r]: The study of shapes and structures of and within the human body. ^[e]
Human and ape behavior [r]: Hypothesising behavioural characteristics of early hominids by observing the behaviour of members of the family Pongidae. ^[e]
Human biology [r]: Interdisciplinary academic field of biology, biological anthropology, nutrition and medicine which focuses on humans. ^[e]
Human evolution [r]: The study of the physical and behavioral genetic adaptations of the species belonging to the subfamily hominidae. ^[e]
Mammal [r]: A warm-blooded animal with a backbone which also has hair, and produces milk to feed its young. ^[e]
Primate [r]: A member of the biological order Primates, which includes prosimians (galagos, lorises, lemurs and tarsiers), monkeys, apes, and humans. ^[e]
Taxon [r]: Any group or rank categorised in the classification of organisms, e.g., class, order, family. ^[e]
(Thomas) Robert Malthus [r]: British economist (1766-1834) who warned about the dangers of population growth. ^[e]