Three hominines – an adult human male (Leonard Carmichael) holding a juvenile gorilla (left) and a juvenile chimpanzee (right). Homininae (the hominines), is a subfamily of the family Hominidae (hominids).

Feb 17, 2025 · Hominin, any member of the zoological ‘tribe’ Hominini (family Hominidae, order Primates), of which only one species exists today—Homo sapiens. The term is used most often to refer to extinct members of the human lineage, including Homo neanderthalensis, Homo erectus, and various species of Australopithecus.

The Hominini (hominins) form a taxonomic tribe of the subfamily Homininae (hominines). They comprise two extant genera: Homo (humans) and Pan (chimpanzees and bonobos), and in standard usage exclude the genus Gorilla (gorillas), which is grouped separately within the subfamily Homininae.

Subfamily Homininae (African apes and humans) 3 genera, 4 living species. Traditionally, zoologists divided subfamily Homininae into 2 “tribes”: Gorillini, containing the gorillas, chimpanzees, and bonobos and their extinct ancestors, and Hominini, containing the “hominins,” or humans and their extinct ancestors.

The australopithecines (/ ɔːˈstreɪloʊˈpɪθəsaɪnz /), formally Australopithecina or Hominina, are generally any species in the related genera of Australopithecus and Paranthropus. It may also include members of Kenyanthropus, [4] Ardipithecus, [4] and Praeanthropus. [5] .

Homininae is a subfamily of Hominidae, which includes humans, gorillas, and chimpanzees which are native to Africa. [1] Most importantly, it also includes extinct human relatives such as Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and earlier species of the genus Homo. [2] It includes all those hominid species which arose after the split from the other ...

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).

A Hominin is any member of the primate tribe Hominini, a classification that generally is considered to include only humans (genus Homo), chimpanzees (Pan), and their extinct ancestors.

At the most basic level, human evolution is articulated through classifications of, and evolutionary relationships among, hominin species. This article presents a basic taxonomy and phylogeny of...

Hominina is a sub-tribe of the hominid primates. It is used by some anthropologists to include the upright biped apes, including the genus Homo. If an anthropologist wants to includes chimpanzees in the tribe Hominini, then it follows that a sub-tribe is needed to put Australopithecines and humans in.

May 6, 2024 · Homininae – Taxon details on Paleobiology Database. For more multimedia, look at Homininae on Wikimedia Commons.

Hominin – the group consisting of modern humans, extinct human species and all our immediate ancestors (including members of the genera Homo, Australopithecus, Paranthropus and Ardipithecus). The term ‘hominid’ used to have the same meaning that ‘hominin’ now has.

Sep 28, 2023 · Hominids constitute the biological family of bipedal primates, encompassing chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, and humans, among other animal species. Hominins are a category within hominids.

The meaning of HOMININE is any of a subfamily (Homininae) of the family Hominidae comprising large-brained hominids (as Homo sapiens and H. erectus) in contrast to the small-brained australopithecines (genus Australopithecus).

Nov 22, 2020 · Over the last few years, the word "hominin" has crept into the public news stories about our human ancestors. This is not a misspelling for hominid; this reflects an evolutionary change in the understanding of what it means to be human. But it is admittedly confusing to scholars and students alike.

Jan 13, 2024 · By 1993, paleoanthropologists had consolidated most of the extinct hominin taxa proposed in the prior century and a half 1 into 11 (or fewer) conventionally recognized species (Table 1). In contrast, since 1994, paleoanthropologists have named new species faster than one every 2 years (Table 2).

Homininae (the hominines), is a subfamily of the family Hominidae (hominids). (The Homininae— / h ɒ m ɪ ˈ n aɪ n iː / —encompass humans, and are also called "African hominids" or "African apes".) [1] [2] This subfamily includes two tribes, Hominini and Gorillini, both having extant (or living) species as well as extinct species.

Homininae) (16). Genetic analysis suggests that hominins and chimpanzees diverged from a common ancestor between 4 million and 7 million years ago (17,18). The earliest fossil currently thought to rep-resent a hominin ancestor is a cranium from Sahelan-thropus tchadensis, discovered in Chad and dated to about 7 million years ago (19).

Humans (Homo sapiens) or modern humans are the most common and widespread species of primate, and the last surviving species of the genus Homo. They are great apes characterized by their hairlessness, bipedalism, and high intelligence.

Jul 1, 2003 · Comparative analyses of molar shape figure prominently in Miocene hominoid evolutionary studies, and incomplete understanding of functional and phylogenetic influences on molar shape variation can have direct consequences for the interpretation of fossil taxa.