Why are there so many species of most living beings but only species of humans?
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There aren’t. There are breeds of dogs but only one species of dog – canine
Same with every species – its what defines a species.
And if you mean breeds – there are very few mammals with multiple breeds. And most of those are human engineered thru purposeful cross breeding (horses, cows, pigs, chickens, cats, dogs, Guinea pigs, etc.)
There are seven layers of taxonomic classification of creatures :
https://basicbiology.net/biology-101/taxonomy?amp
The narrowest is species.
It’s also possible you’re misnaming groups as “species” when those words are really larger classes of organisms in the upper levels of Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and finally most narrow term: Species.
So insect for example is a “Class” under which there are orders, families, genus’ and then species.
Humans are a species “sapien” of the genus homo, family hominid, order primate, class mammals, phylum chordata, kingdom animalia, domain eukarya…
From phylum up to domain, humans and insects share the same categories…
It’s easier to check out the charts in the link…
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