Hominidae - Wikipedia A 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)
HOMINID Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster The meaning of HOMINID is any of a family (Hominidae) of erect bipedal primate mammals that includes recent humans together with extinct ancestral and related forms and the great apes
Hominidae | Definition, Characteristics, Family Tree | Britannica Since classification schemes aim to depict relationships, it is logical to consider humans and great apes as hominids—that is, members of the same zoological family, Hominidae Typically, this family is divided into two subfamilies
What Is a Hominid? Traits That Shaped Human Evolution In modern scientific context, the family Hominidae, or hominids, includes all great apes: orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, and humans, along with their immediate ancestors Previously, “hominid” was used more restrictively to refer only to humans and their direct ancestors
Hominid - New World Encyclopedia A 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
What are Hominids? (with pictures) - AllTheScience Hominids are the biological family of which humans are a member Informally, they are known as the Great Apes, and include four genera: humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans
Hominids: What are, characteristics and evolution Reading these characteristics, it is easy to note that we are describing differences between the great apes and the human Hominin classification contains only to the human, while the upper hominid category includes the human and the great apes
Human evolution - Wikipedia And in 2001, a team led by Michel Brunet discovered the skull of Sahelanthropus tchadensis which was dated as 7 2 million years ago, and which Brunet argued was a bipedal, and therefore a hominid—that is, a hominin (cf Hominidae; terms "hominids" and hominins)