The Hominidae (/ hɒˈmɪnɪdiː /), whose members are known as the great apes[note 1] or hominids (/ ˈhɒmɪnɪdz /), 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); and Homo, of whi...

Hominoidea is a superfamily of primates. Members of this superfamily are called hominoids or apes, and include gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans, gibbons, bonobos, and humans. Hominoidea is one of the six major groups in the order Primates.

Jan 17, 2025 · 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).

Jan 6, 2020 · Hominids and hominoids are two different but related classifications of primate taxonomy. They are tailless and simian, meaning they look and are related to monkeys in a more general classification. Both are broad terms that refer to species both living and extinct.

Hominid – the group consisting of all modern and extinct Great Apes (that is, modern humans, chimpanzees, gorillas and orang-utans plus all their immediate ancestors).

Hominoids, apes and humans, are one of the least diverse clades of living primates, but have a very extensive fossil record that begins in the late Oligocene (Stevens et al., 2013) and that includes many extinct genera in Africa, Europe, and Asia (Fleagle, 2013). There are eight extant hominoid genera and 26 species (most of which are gibbons).

Hominids (except humans) have anterior palates that are widened beyond those of hylobatids (Rae, 1997), possess even shorter, stiffer lower backs, and lack anatomical specializations for...

Hominoidea, in zoology, a superfamily of primates containing all the ape s as well as human being s.

Hominoidea, conhecidos por grandes símios, antropoides, grandes primatas ou "grandes macacos" é uma superfamília de primatas que compõe a parvordem dos Catarrhini juntamente com as superfamílias Propliopithecoidea, Pliopithecoidea, Cercopithecoidea, Dendropithecoidea e Proconsuloidea.

The meaning of HOMINOID is any of a superfamily (Hominoidea) of primates including recent hominids, gibbons, and pongids together with extinct ancestral and related forms (as of the genera Proconsul and Dryopithecus).