hominid
类人猿,类人猿类,人形生物,人类
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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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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.