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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 ape ancestors) speciate from the ancestors...
- 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
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 ...
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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. [1]
Dec 24, 2014 · Namely, Hominidae is a monophyletic group that subsumes extant humans and their fossil relatives, to the exclusion of any living relative. (It is in this sense that I use Hominidae/hominid/hominids throughout this contribution.)
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Nov 12, 2021 · The hominoids are a group of primates comprised of the smaller-bodied hylobatids (siamangs and gibbons, body sizes range from 5 to 12 kg) and the much larger hominids (great apes and humans, body sizes range from 33 to 175 kg) (Smith and Jungers 1997 ).
Andrew Hill, Steven Ward. First published: 1988. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.1330310505. Citations: 99. PDF. Tools. Share. Abstract. The Hominidae probably originated in Africa sometime between 14 my and 4 my ago. Unfortunately the fossil evidence from this time period and region is relatively poor.
