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Hominidae

NOUN
  1. modern man and extinct immediate ancestors of man

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  • As you might have guessed we are not talking about an all-too-human Dana Plato, Todd Bridges or Corey-of-your-choice, but a fellow member of our family Hominidae who diverged from our species 6 million years ago. Warren Holstein: Monkey Business: Travis the Celebrity Chimpanzee Attacks!!!
  • For perspective on the scale of evolutionary difference between genera, consider that modern humans and Neanderthals are different species within the same genus (Homo), while chimpanzees are our living relatives from a closely related genus (Pan), but that we share the same taxonomic family (Hominidae) with our chimp cousins. Archive 2007-04-01
  • Hominidae, the mammalian family that includes modern humans and their immediately extinct ancestors, contains four genera: Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and Homo.
  • Hominidae, which is made up by orangutans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and humans. Primates in the News
  • Hominidae is the taxonomic group that contains the apes orangutan, gorilla, chimpanzee, human. Telling apes from humans - The Panda's Thumb
  • Experts now bracket humans in the ‘hominidae’ family of great apes, along with orangutans, chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas.
  • Besides, technically, chimps, gorillas, and orangutans are hominids, as they are all members of family Hominidae. The Volokh Conspiracy » Scientific Evidence for the Lord of the Rings
  • Hominology is related to Hominidae, the primate family including modern humans and their extinct immediate ancestors. Week in Words
  • Experts now bracket humans in the ‘hominidae’ family of great apes, along with orang-utans, chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas.
  • And yet there are distinctions of considerable im - portance between apes and man, enough difference so that, quite fairly and without too much self-love on our own part, man may be put into a third catarrhine family all by himself, Hominidae (hoh-min'ih-dee; "man" L). The Human Brain
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