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hominoid
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hominoid
of, relating to, or belonging to the primate superfamily Hominoidea, which includes the anthropoid apes and man

hominoid [′häm·ə‚nȯi̇d]
(anthropology)
A member of the biological superfamily Hominoidea, including humans, the apes (great and lesser apes), and a number of their extinct ancestors and relatives.


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Schwartz and Grehan pooled humans, orangutans, and the fossil apes into a new group called "dental hominoids," named for their similarly thick-enameled teeth.
Louis) offers a textbook for anthropology courses, discussing primate morphology, fossil hominins, Miocene hominoids, and Australopiths and tracing evolution through the genus Homo, Homo erectus, and archaic hominins.
In Kantor's (1977) words, "Psychological interbehaviors evolve from biological adaptations but become as different from biological interbehavior as, for example, hominoids differ from organisms in prior stages of evolution.
 
 
 
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