Hominidae

The Hominidae (/hɒˈmɪnd/), whose members are kent as great apes[note 1] or hominids, are a taxonomic faimily o primates that includes seiven extant species in fower genera: Pongo, the Bornean and Sumatran orangutan; Gorilla, the eastren an wastren gorilla; Pan, the common chimpanzee an the bonobo; an Homo, the human (an tho no extant, the near-human ancestors an relatives (e.g., the Neanderthal)).[1]

Hominidae[1]
Temporal range: Miocene-Present, 23.03–0 Ma
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Twa hominids: A human (Homo sapiens) an a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)
Scientific classification e
Kinrick:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Cless:Mammalia
Order:Primates
Suborder:Haplorhini
Superfaimily:Hominoidea
Faimily:Hominidae
Gray, 1825
Teep genus
Homo
Linnaeus, 1758
Subfaimily
  • Ponginae
  • Homininae
  • Ouranopithecus
  • Kenyapithecinae
Synonyms
  • Pongidae Elliot, 1913

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