Humans are Hominids, as are the Great Apes, and Should be Classified as Such, Whether One accepts Evolution or not.

​There is no excuse genetically, physiologically or behaviorally that humans should not be classified in the family Hominidae along with Chimpanzees, Bonobos, Gorillas and Orangutans (as well as all the fossil hominids). Even if you are *not accepting of Evolutionary Theory, humans have no discernible separation from the Great Apes in regard to our criteria for classification at a family level.


Genetically, we have the basic similarities at a profile level primarily. Humans differ from chimpanzees and bonobos by 5-2% when compared by genetic profile (the exact same method we use to determine paternity in humans). And, while numbers can vary in regard to specific sections, humans are closest to chimps and bonobos in every potential comparison when in contrast to other organisms tested.
Remarkably, this goes for the chimps and bonobos as well: We are their closest relatives, even when compared to the other African Apes.
Our vitamin C gene is broken in the exact same place, across all of the haplorhines as well, a coincidence that cannot be reasonably explained outside common ancestry. And among the primates, including humans, our ERV's match us up as well.
The underlying point for genetics is: Humans have direct relation to the other great apes, lesser apes, old and new world monkeys, tarsiers, lorises and lemurs respectively more than ANY other animal group.


Physiologically, we compare to chimpanzees and bonobos most closely as well. Their skeleton mostly closely resembles ours among living organisms, and they thrive with their habitual bipedality. Together we sport grasping hands, binocular vision, an identical dental formula (2123), low but present sexual dimorphism, altricial young with large braincases, similar gestational/rearing periods and flatter faces in comparison to the other mammals. Our young are born with the grasping reflex for holding mother's fur, and we still retain this today. We are covered with close to the same number of hair follicles, but our fur/hair is much thinner than theirs. Both of us share an omnivorous diet primarily plant based (with the advent of cereals for modern humans) but take meat at every opportunity.


And behaviorally the chimps and the bonobos occupy our own extremes: the warlike, patriarchal common chimps (pan troglodytes) versus the sexual, matriarchal bonobos (pan paniscus). They, like us, use tools and thrive in fission/fusion social groups.


There is no other group to place humans cladistically, nor would any sane taxonomist do so. We are share more with the apes in our family than some canids do with the dogs in their own.


Thus, I maintain there is NO excuse for attempting to give humans their own "Kind" even from a YEC perspective, if one is arguing for scientific validity. If you wish to claim it is so because God made humans unique, this is fine, but you cannot make an honest argument from a biologic perspective. Humans may differ in our spirituality, culture or success, but this is of no consequence to my claim: the anatomy speaks for itself.


edit: a more clear addition: even when disregarding genetics, an honest cladist would still classify humans as hominids.