GC: pn
S: SDir – https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/hominidae (last access: 9 March 2025); GBIF – https://www.gbif.org/species/5483 (last access: 9 March 2025).
N: 1. – Hominidae (pn). From Modern Latin Hominidæ.
– hominid (n). “one of the family of mammals represented by man,” 1889, from Modern Latin Hominidæ the biological family name (1825), from Latin homo (genitive hominis) “man” (see homunculus) + -id. As an adjective from 1915. Related: Hominine (adj.).
2. Hominidae, primate family. Also known as hominid.
- Hominidae, in zoology, one of the two living families of the ape superfamily Hominoidea, the other being the Hylobatidae (gibbons). Hominidae includes the great apes—that is, the orangutans (genus Pongo), the gorillas (Gorilla), and the chimpanzees and bonobos (Pan)—as well as human beings (Homo).
- Hominidae has been a subject of much debate among taxonomists. Formerly, humans alone (with their extinct forebears) were placed in Hominidae, and the great apes were placed in a different family, Pongidae. However, morphological and molecular studies now indicate that humans are closely related to chimpanzees, while gorillas are more distant and orangutans more distant still. 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. One (called Ponginae) contains only the orangutans, and the other (Homininae) contains humans and the African great apes. Some classifications further subdivide Homininae into two or more “tribes.” Some reserve the tribe Gorillini for gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, and their evolutionary ancestors and reserve the tribe Hominini exclusively for modern human beings (H. sapiens) and their extinct forebears (e.g., the Neanderthals, H. erectus, and various species of Australopithecus); members of the tribe Hominini are frequently referred to as hominins. Other classifications, however, place chimpanzees and bonobos in their own tribe, called Panini, since they are genetically relatively distant from Gorillini, or place them with human beings in the tribe Hominini, since their ancestors separated from one another within the most recent eight million years.
3. Paleontology > Anthropology: Hominidae, hominians.
- A family of mammals to which man and his ancestors belong, order of Primates.
- The word “hominid” refers to members of the family of humans, Hominidae, which consists of all species on our side of the last common ancestor of humans and living apes.
- Chimps, gorillas, humans, and orangutans make up the family Hominidae.
- Some scientists use a broader definition of Hominidae which includes the great apes, and instead call the group … “hominians.”
4. Paleontology; Anthropology: hominid, homonid, hominian, Hominid.
- A member of the Hominidae, a family consisting of man and his ancestors.
- The specimen, known as Piltdown man, occupied an honored place in the catalogues of fossil hominids …
S: 1. Etymonline – https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=Hominidae (last access: 9 March 2025). 2. EncBrit – https://www.britannica.com/animal/Hominidae (last access: 9 March 2025). 3 & 4. TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-fra.html?lang=fra&i=1&srchtxt=HOMINIDAE&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs, https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-fra.html?lang=fra&i=1&srchtxt=hominid&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 9 March 2025).
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