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🧍Human
Humans are the most abundant and widespread species of primates, characterized by bipedalism, minimal body hair, and large, complex brains enabling the development of advanced technology, culture, and language. Humans are highly social beings and tend to live in complex social structures composed of many cooperating and competing groups, from families and kinship networks to political states. Social interactions between humans have established a wide variety of values, social norms, and rituals, which bolster human society. Curiosity and the human desire to understand and influence the environment have motivated humanity's development of science, philosophy, religion, mythology and other fields of knowledge.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2008.
- Body mass
- 62 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- 38 km/h
- Bite force
- 843 N
- Maximum lifespan
- 123 years
Everything we know about the Human
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass62 kgAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: high
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Standing height1.7 m1.6–1.85 m · typical rangeDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: NCD Risk Factor Collaboration 2016, eLife 5:e13410 (global mean adult stature) · see citation
Top speed38 km/hDetails ↓Hide ↑
MEAN velocity over the full 100 m: 100/9.58 = 10.44 m/s. Peak instantaneous velocity during that run was higher. An elite sprinter, not a typical adult.
Source: Bolt 100 m world record, Berlin 2009 (9.58 s) · see citation
Bite force843 Naverage777–909 N · range across sexesOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Species-level value synthesised as the mean of: female, male.
By sex
- Male909 NWaltimo & Kononen 1995, Acta Odontol Scand 53(4):254MEASURED maximum voluntary bite at the MOLAR, n=56 men, SD 177 N. Incisal bite in the same study is 382 N -- about half -- which is why bite position has to travel with the number. Finite-element modelling of a human skull gives a higher 1109-1317 N at the second molar (Wroe et al. 2010, Proc R Soc B 277:3579): models estimate the physiological ceiling, voluntary clenching does not reach it.
- Female777 NWaltimo & Kononen 1995, Acta Odontol Scand 53(4):254MEASURED maximum voluntary bite at the MOLAR, n=73 women, SD 168 N. Incisal bite in the same study is 325 N.
Maximum lifespan123 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation280 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: high
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Litter size1AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l62 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Human yet: body length, shoulder height.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderPrimates
- ›familyHominidae
- ›genusHomo
- ›speciesHomo sapiens
- classMammals · Mammalia
- infraorderSimiiformes
- subfamilyHomininae
- genusHomo
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderEuarchontoglires
- suborderHaplorrhini
- infraorderSimiiformes
- subfamilyHomininae
- genusHomo
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