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Bookmark or Share- Hominidae - WikipediaA hominid is a member of the family Hominidae, the great apes: orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees and humans. A hominine is a member of the subfamily Homininae : gorillas, chimpanzees, and humans (excludes orangutans).
- What’s in a Name? Hominid Versus Hominin | SmithsonianAt Hominid Hunting, we generally use the term hominid in the traditional sense of the word: humans and their close extinct ancestors. But rather than being old-fashioned, I think it means we’re...
- Hominid - New World EncyclopediaA hominid is any member of the primate family Hominidae. Recent classification schemes for the apes place extinct and extant humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans in Hominidae, and thus technically hominid refers to members of these groups.
- Hominin | Definition, Characteristics, & Family Tree | BritannicaHominin, any member of the zoological ‘tribe’ Hominini (family Hominidae, order Primates), of which only one species exists today—Homo sapiens. The term is used most often to refer to extinct members of the human lineage, including Homo neanderthalensis, Homo erectus, and various species of Australopithecus.
- Human evolution - WikipediaHuman evolution is the evolutionary process within the history of primates that led to the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species of the hominid family that includes all the great apes. [1]
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