Here is the scientific classification of humans, starting with the broadest categories and moving down:

* Domain: Eukarya (organisms with cells containing a nucleus)

* Kingdom: Animalia (multicellular organisms that can move)

* Phylum: Chordata (animals with a notochord, a flexible rod that supports the body)

* Class: Mammalia (warm-blooded vertebrates with hair and mammary glands)

* Order: Primates (mammals with five-fingered hands, five-toed feet, and large relative brain size)

* Family: Hominidae (great apes: humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans)

* Genus: *Homo* (humans and extinct human ancestors)

* Species: *Homo sapiens* (modern humans)