Hominidae
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Not to be confused with Humanoid or Hominoid. "Great apes", "Hominid", and "Hominids" redirect here. For the Will Self novel, see Great Apes (novel). For the Klaus Ebner novel, see Hominid (novel). For the Robert J. Sawyer novel, see The Neanderthal Parallax.
Hominids[1]
Temporal range: Miocene - Holocene, 7–0Ma
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Two hominids: A human (Homo sapiens) and a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Superfamily: Hominoidea
Family: Hominidae
Gray, 1825
Type genus
Homo
Linnaeus, 1758
Genera
Subfamily Ponginae
Pongo – orangutans
Subfamily Homininae
†Australopithecina
Gorilla – gorillas
Homo – humans
Pan – chimpanzees and bonobos
Synonyms
Pongidae Elliot, 1913
The Hominidae (/hɒˈmɪnɨdiː/; also known as great apes[notes 1]) form a taxonomic family of primates, including four extant genera:
chimpanzees (Pan) – 2 species
gorillas (Gorilla) – 2 species
humans (Homo) – 1 species
orangutans (Pongo) – 2 species.[1]
The term "hominid" is also used in the more restricted sense as hominins or "humans and relatives of humans closer than chimpanzees".[2] In this usage, all hominid species other than Homo sapiens are extinct. A number of known extinct genera are grouped with humans in the Homininae subfamily, others with orangutans in the Ponginae subfamily. The most recent common ancestor of the Hominidae lived roughly 14 million years ago,[3] when the ancestors of the orangutans speciated from the ancestors of the other three genera.[4] The ancestors of the Hominidae family had already speciated from those of the Hylobatidae family, perhaps 15 million to 20 million years ago.[4][5]