I find that it often helps to translate a word into another language (you can use Google translate if you do not speak the language) and get new ideas or input that way. Supplemental: In the context of the categories involved with game development, perhaps Human, Animal, and Life-form or Entity (mortal and non-mortal).

I think that maintaining the conceit that the distinctions which differentiate Homo sapiens from the other members of Hominidae are sufficient to justify an exclusive categorization, has lately been. (My language choice is, admittedly, informed by philosophical, ethical and political concerns. Q: f you had a list of two choices, animal or human, what would you write as the heading?Ī: If I had to choose between Human or Animal, my choice would be Animal. There are 13 families in the order Primates.įamily Hominidae - humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans The above features make the animals of the order Primates also eutherians, mammals, vertebrates, and chordates. Eutherians are also the mammals with the longest relationship between mother and young. Primates are eutherians, meaning that they have a placenta that provides a more intimate relationship between mother and child while the mother nurses the child. They are endothermic, have vertebrae and a skeleton, and are segmented deuterosomes, with a coelom made from an outgrowth of the digestive tract. They show all of the normal features of mammals, including hair and mammary glands for nursing the young. The primates belong to the class Mammalia.

(Wikipedia, Animalia)ĭomain Eukarya - Kingdom Animalia - Phylum Chordata - Subphylum Vertebrata - Class Mammalia - Order Primates - Family Hominidae - Genus Homo - Species Sapien All animals are heterotrophs: they must ingest other organisms or their products for sustenance.

Their body plan eventually becomes fixed as they develop, although some undergo a process of metamorphosis later on in their lives. All animals are motile, meaning they can move spontaneously and independently, at some point in their lives.

Q: Is there a single word for 'animals, including humans'?Ī: Humans are included in the Kingdom AnimaliaĪnimals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom Animalia (also called Metazoa).

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