Hominidae

n. family of man (Anthropology)

The hominids are the members of the biological family Hominidae (the great apes), which includes humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans.This classification has been revised several times in the last few decades. Originally, the group was restricted to humans and their extinct relatives, with the other great apes being placed in a separate family, the Pongidae. This definition is still used by many anthropologists and by lay people. However, that definition makes Pongidae paraphyletic, whereas most taxonomists nowadays encourage monophyletic groups. Thus many biologists consider Hominidae to include Pongidae as the subfamily Ponginae, or restrict the latter to the orangutans and their extinct relatives like Gigantopithecus. The taxonomy shown here follows the monophyletic groupings.
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Noun
1. modern man and extinct immediate ancestors of man
(synonym) family Hominidae
(hypernym) mammal family
(member-holonym) Anthropoidea, suborder Anthropoidea
(member-meronym) hominid

Hominidae, family of man (Anthropology)

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