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 …

The Hominini (hominins) form a taxonomic tribe of the subfamily Homininae (hominines). They comprise two extant genera: Homo and Pan (chimpanzees and bonobos), and in standard …

Mar 31, 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 …

Previous definitions. The term ‘hominid’ used to have the same meaning that ‘hominin’ now has. It was therefore a very useful term to designate the line leading to modern humans and was …

Sep 28, 2023 · Origin of hominins. Though which should be considered the first hominin is debated, it is widely accepted that hominins would have appeared on Earth during the …

Nov 16, 2011 · An artist’s reconstruction of Australopithecus afarensis, a species that can be called a hominid or a hominin. Image courtesy of Wikicommons

Bones of the skull. Plate 188 from Gray’s Anatomy. “Side view of the skull” by Henry Vandyke Carter is in the public domain. VERTEBRAE. Ape spines are not as flexible as monkeys’ …

Nov 22, 2020 · Up until the 1980s, paleoanthropologists generally followed the taxonomic system developed by the 18th-century scientist Carl Linnaeus, when they spoke of the various species …

Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelli) Hominoidea is a superfamily of primates. Members of this superfamily are called hominoids or apes, and include gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans, …

The meaning of HOMININ is any of a taxonomic tribe (Hominini) of hominids that includes recent humans together with extinct ancestral and related forms.