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hominidAny member of the zoological family Hominidae (order Primates), which consists of the great apes (orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and bonobos) as well as human beings. Formerly, only humans (with their extinct forebears) were categorized as hominids, and the great apes were categorized as pongids—that is, members of the primate family Pongidae. However, morphological and molecular studies now indicate that humans are closely related to chimpanzees, while gorillas are more distant and orangutans more distant still. As a result, it has become more common among zoologists to consider humans and great apes to be hominids. See also hominin. |
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| states that binocular vision "almost certainly was a predatory adaptation" that puts us binocular hominids firmly among predators, while our dentition firmly disputes this. If you live in Washington, the cover story was "Lost World of the Little People," illustrated by a photo of a black hominid. Ever since early hominids first made crude stone tools some two and a half million years ago, the archaeological record reveals--to the extent that the material record can stand as a proxy for cognitive states--that innovation in hominid cognitive capacities, or at least their material products, was a highly sporadic and occasional process. |
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