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The Hominidae (/ h ɒ ˈ m ɪ n ɪ d iː /), whose members are known as the great apes or hominids (/ ˈ h ɒ m ɪ n ɪ d z /), 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 chimpanzee and the bonobo ...
- Lesser Apes
Etymology. The English word "gibbon" is a reborrowing from...
- Timeline of Human Evolution
Hominidae: Great apes: humans, chimpanzees, gorillas and...
- Ouranopithecus
Ouranopithecus is a genus of extinct Eurasian great ape...
- Ponginae
Ponginae / p ɒ n ˈ dʒ aɪ n iː /, also known as the Asian...
- Oreopithecus
Oreopithecus (from the Greek ὄρος, oros and πίθηκος,...
- Lesser Apes
Hominini. The Hominini form a taxonomic tribe of the subfamily Homininae ("hominines"). Hominini includes the extant genera Homo ( humans) and Pan ( chimpanzees and bonobos) and in standard usage excludes the genus Gorilla (gorillas). The term was originally introduced by Camille Arambourg (1948).
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Homininae ( / hɒmɪˈnaɪniː / ), also called " African hominids " or " African apes ", is a subfamily of Hominidae. [1] [2] It includes two tribes, with their extant as well as extinct species: 1) the tribe Hominini (with the genus Homo including modern humans and numerous extinct species; the subtribe Hominina, comprising at least two ...
Human evolution. The hominoids are descendants of a common ancestor. Human 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.
The superfamily Hominoidea consists of two extant families: Hominidae and Hylobatidae. Hominidae is divided into two subfamilies: Homininae, containing five species divided between three genera, and Ponginae, containing three species in a single genus. Hylobatidae contains twenty species in four genera. Family Hominidae.
