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Modern man and extinct immediate ancestors of man
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hominidae
Word definitions for hominidae in dictionaries
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The Hominidae , whose members are known as great apes or hominids , are a taxonomic family of primates that includes seven extant species in four genera : Pongo , the Bornean and Sumatran orangutan ; Gorilla , the eastern and western gorilla ; Pan , the ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hominidae \Hominidae\ prop. n. The natural family of primates including modern man and the extinct immediate ancestors of man. Syn: family Hominidae .
Usage examples of hominidae.
Chimps, gorillas, and orangutans are classified as members of the Pongidae family, while humans are the only existing members of the Hominidae family.
Pongidae family to Hominidae, but as far as I can see, Zero is already there.
And after seeing that, the movement to have them reclassified as Hominidae will gain unstoppable momentum.
The crowd was likewise mixed, saurs and hominidae rubbing shoulders, drinking and talking loudly, some half listening to a pithkie soprano at a microphone, her silver satin shift flowing over her silvery fur, her Latin torch-song keening above the babble.
Recently some of the hominidae have lifted themselves, and traveled here without us and without the saurs.
If the hominidae can fill our niche at a lower price, we will only gain from it, as will all the other intelligent species.
The hominidae cheerfully tended and harvested the sources of raw materials, and the saurs and krakens exchanged their advanced products and services for those of human industry and craft.
You share your planets with the other hominidae, with the saurs and with the great squid, and you do not fight.
She had a shocking premonition that a world in which the senior generation did not grow older would have its disadvantages that could only be overcome by endless expansion, if the hominidae were not to become a second version of the saurs.
As for most of the rest of my species, they have feared the gods, they feared the hominidae, and now they fear the Multipliers.
I have killed a god, I have had friends among the hominidae, including Matt and including Elizabeth and Gregor, and when my blood runs out it will be full of Spiders.
There's a great chain of being, almost, from the gods down through the krakens and the saurs to the humans and the affined fellow Adamic hominidae.
And yet there are distinctions of considerable im portance between apes and man, enough difference so that, quite fairly and without too much self-love on our own part, man may be put into a third catarrhine family all by himself, Hominidae (hoh-min'ih-dee.