What is a Hominin?

Question

What is a Hominin?

Answer 1

A *hominid* (not hominin) is a primate of the family Hominidae, but generally refers to a human being and recent human ancestors.

A *homonym* is one of a group of words that share the same spelling or pronunciation, or both, but have different meanings.

Answer 2

do you mean hominine, hominid?

Hominid means a primate belonging to a family of which the modern human being is the only species still in existence.

Hominine means a primate with a two-legged gait, relatively small face and teeth, and large brain. Hominines include human beings and their most direct ancestors.

Answer 3

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. Hominids are included in the superfamily of all apes, the Hominoidea,

Hominid or hominin?

Some scientists use a broader definition of Hominidae which includes the great apes, and instead call the group I am discussing "hominins".

the members of which are called hominoids. Although the hominid fossil record is far from complete, and the evidence is often fragmentary, there is enough to give a good outline of the evolutionary history of humans.

Answer 4

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