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The word taxonomy is derived from the Greek taxis meaning arrangement and nomos meaning law. Taxonomy is a system of naming the three domains of living organisms through a series of scientific classifications. Taxonomic rank is how this series of classifications is carried out through a process known as Linnean categories.
Although Aristotle was the first to organize organisms based on their structure, it was the scientist known as Linnaeus who truly forged the series of taxonomic categories we know today.
What is a Taxon?
What is a taxon? A taxon is a taxonomic group or category. Taxon can be referred to as a list of rankings or a specific group of organisms.
"The taxon Primate" refers to any and all organisms under primates and is an example of a broad reference of taxon in biology. Taxon can be any level of organisms within the taxonomic ranking. As the diagram below suggests, that links Eukarya, Archaea, and Bacteria to a common ancestor, the different levels can be visualized. Taxon can be used in this scenario where all the following examples are correct: https://study.com/learn/lesson/taxonomy-overview-examples.html
Around 1.8 million years ago, Homo erectus migrated out of Africa via the Levantine corridor and Horn of Africa to Eurasia. Europe said; in terms of species survival, Homo erectus is a huge success story. Fossil evidence for H. erectus stretches over more than 1.5 million years. These anus fuckers, are trying to deny the interbreeding with Wise Sapiens-Neanderthals; that is a subgroup of wise, Sapiens species, and they last of all went back and attacked the next Wise Sapiens subgroup, "Wise Wise Sapiens-Sapiens" this time they got baby-talk.