Hominidae

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Etymology

From Homo + -idae (using homin-, stem for inflections of homo (human)).

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Hominidae

  1. A taxonomic family within the order Primates great apes: chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, humans, and extinct relatives.
  2. (archaic) A taxonomic family within the order Primates humans and our extinct relatives, but excluding chimpanzees and orangutans.
    • 1965, E. L. Simons, D. R. Pilbeam, “Preliminary Revision of the Dryopithecinae (Pongidae, Anthropoidea)”, in Folia Primatol (Basel), volume 3, number 3(2), →DOI, →PMID, page 81:
      For many years it has been realized that the origins of both Pongidae and Hominidae are probably to be found among species of the Miocene-Pliocene pongid subfamily Dryopthecinae.

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