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hominid

/hom-uh-nid/US // ˈhɒm ə nɪd //UK // (ˈhɒmɪnɪd) //

类人猿,类人猿类,人形生物,人类

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Anthropology, Zoology.

    • : any member of the family Hominidae, consisting of all modern and extinct humans and great apes, and all their immediate ancestors.See also hominin.

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Examples

  • That makes the older chimp lineage a closer relative of early hominids.

  • These new models of how ancient thumbs worked underscore the slowness of hominid hand evolution, says paleoanthropologist Matthew Tocheri of Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Canada.

  • Around that time, hominids at a site called Olorgesailie in what’s now Kenya transformed their culture.

  • These changes heralded a series of booms and busts in the resources hominids needed to survive, Potts and his colleagues report October 21 in Science Advances.

  • Widely scattered hominid groups began to trade with one another to obtain suitable toolmaking rock and other resources.

  • Fossils, skulls, and hominid exhibitions throughout the caves are quite something.

  • Last Sunday, 60 Minutes aired a remarkable story about the discovery of two hominid fossils in South Africa.

  • If so, it is certainly not chimpanzee nor close to the Apes, but decidedly hominid.