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Definitions of hominid in various dictionaries:
noun - a primate of the family Hominidae
adj - characterizing the family Hominidae, which includes Homo sapiens as well as extinct species of manlike creatures
Of the Hominidae.
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6-mil.-year-old Sahelanthropus tchadensis may be the first this, a term covering us & our humanlike ancestors |
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a primate of a family ( iHominidaei ) which includes humans and their fossil ancestors. |
A primate of a family (Hominidae ) which includes humans and their fossil ancestors and also (in recent schemes) at least some of the great apes. |
A primate of the family Hominidae, of which Homo sapiens is the only extant species. |
Of the Hominidae. |
a primate of the family Hominidae |
characterizing the family Hominidae, which includes Homo sapiens sapiens as well as extinct species of manlike creatures |
a member of a group that consists of humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orang-utangs, or an early form of one of these |
a human, or an early form of human |
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The Hominidae (), whose members are known as great apes or hominids, are a taxonomic family of primates that includes eight extant species in four genera: Pongo, the Bornean, Sumatran and Tapanuli orangutan; Gorilla, the eastern and western gorilla; Pan, the common chimpanzee and the bonobo; and Homo, which includes modern humans and its extinct relatives (e.g., the Neanderthal), and ancestors, such as Homo erectus.Several revisions in classifying the great apes have caused the use of the term "hominid" to vary over time. Its original meaning referred only to humans (Homo) and their closest extinct relatives. That restrictive meaning has now been largely assumed by the term "hominin", which comprises all members of the human clade after the split from the chimpanzees (Pan). The current, 21st-century meaning of "hominid" includes all the great apes including humans. Usage still varies, however, and some scientists and laypersons still use "hominid" in the original restrictive sense; th |