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Taxon: Species Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 - human (mammal)
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Basic information

Distribution : Arctic, Atlantic, Africa, Europe, Asia, Indian Ocean, Australasia, Pacific, North, Middle & South America, Antarctic
Period : Middle Pleistocene - Present (0.781 Ma - present)
Status : extant

Paleontology

Period : 0.35 Mya - present Ref: Wikimedia: 19 Sep 2021.
Period (first) : Formerly 0.195 Mya Ref: M. Dembo et al., 2016: table 3 (p. 24).
Period : Late Pleistocene - Present Ref: M.J. Benton, 2005: 385.

Geography

Distribution : Cosmopolitan
Population : 7,174,611,584 Ref: CIA: [14 Jun 2014] (Jul 2014 est.).
Population : 7,256,490,011 Ref: CIA: [16 Mar 2016] (Jul 2015 est.).
Population : 7,323,187,457 Ref: CIA: [7 Feb 2017] (Jul 2016 est.).
Population : 7,405,107,650 Ref: CIA: [8 Dec 2017] (Jul 2017 est.).
Population : 7,503,828,180 Ref: CIA: 30 Apr 2019 (2018 est.).
Population : 7,684,292,383 Ref: CIA: 1 Jul 2020 (Jul 2020 est.).
Population : 7,772,850,805 Ref: CIA: 4 May 2021 (Jul 2021 est.).
Population : 7,905,336,896 Ref: CIA: [13 Sep 2022] (Jul 2022 est.).
Population : 7,979,261,010 Ref: CIA: [1 Jun 2023] (2023 est.).

Ecology

Nutritional group : Omnivore

Ecology/Habitat

Habitat : Mangrove swamp Ref: WWF, present: im1406 [1 May 2014].

Ecology/Strategies

Feeding strategy : Cultivation
Feeding strategy : Predation
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