Animals

(living organisms that feed on organic matter, with specialized sense organs and a nervous system and able to respond rapidly to stimuli)

Chordates

(animals possessing a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle, and a post-anal tail for at least some period of their life cycles)

Vertebrates

(animals with backbones - they include fish, amphibians, birds, reptiles and mammals)

Mammals

(all mammals have hair, three middle ear bones, mammary glands and a neocortex)

Eutherians

(placental mammals)

Primates

("The First Order" - includes monkeys, apes and humans)

Anthropoids

(resembling human beings in form, having a relatively flat face, dry nose, 

small immobile ears, and forward-facing eyes, comprising humans, apes, Old World monkeys, and New World monkeys.)

Hominids

(human-like; includes all the great apes, one of which is Man)

Genus and species

Homo sapiens

Mankind

(Homo Sapiens = Knowing Human/Wise Man)