Crossword clues for hominid
The Collaborative International Dictionary
hominian \hominian\, hominid \hominid\n. Any animal of the family Hominidae, including modern man as well as extinct species of the genera Homo and Australopithecus.
Syn: homonid.
hominian \hominian\ hominid \hominid\adj. characterizing the family Hominidae, which includes Homo sapiens sapiens as well as extinct species of manlike creatures. [Narrower terms: {human (vs. nonhuman) ] WordNet 1.5]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1889, "family of mammals represented by man," from Modern Latin Hominidæ the biological family name, coined 1825 from Latin homo (genitive hominis) "man" (see homunculus). As an adjective from 1915.
Wiktionary
a. Of the Hominidae n. Any primate of the family Hominidae. All the great apes (chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and humans).
WordNet
adj. characterizing the family Hominidae, which includes Homo sapiens sapiens as well as extinct species of manlike creatures [syn: hominian]
n. a primate of the family Hominidae
Wikipedia
Hominid is a short novel by Austrian writer Klaus Ebner. Taking place millions of years ago, it is a fictional story of a band of extinct hominids who inhabit Central Africa. Referencing the seven days of biblical Creation, the novel takes place in seven days. As the protagonist Pitar leads his band to civilization, tension arises between the clan leader Costello and his rival Re. Over the course of the story, Pitar invents tools, discovers the use of fire, and falls in love with Maluma. The seventh day marks a turning point in the storyline, as the members of the band separate from one another.
The characters' contemporary language and Pitar's thorough knowledge of modern-day history, philosophy and science add to the grotesque humor of the novel, while his two friends quote classical Roman literature and Chinese sayings. The book was published by Viennese publisher FZA Verlag in October 2008. Between 2008 and 2010, several Austrian and German critics and writers published reviews of the novel.
A hominid is any primate in the family Hominidae.
Hominid may also refer to:
- Hominid (novel), a novel by Klaus Ebner
- Hominids, the first volume in the Neanderthal Parallax trilogy by Robert J. Sawyer
- Hominids of the Ringworld, fictional species in Ringworld, a novel by Larry Niven
Usage examples of "hominid".
In Part II we also consider the possible coexistence of primitive hominids and anatomically modern humans not only in the distant past but in the present.
Most authorities now postulate that both anatomically modern humans and the classic Western European Neanderthals evolved from the pre-Neanderthal or early Homo sapiens types of hominids.
Although most scientists would never dream of it, one could consider attributing the Koobi Fora femurs to a hominid very much like modern Homo sapiens, living in Africa about 2 million years ago.
We have carefully analyzed reports about several other Chinese sites, and we find that the same process of morphological dating has been used to temporally separate various kinds of hominids.
What we are insisting on is thisscientists should not propose that the hominids definitely did not coexist simply on the basis of their morphological diversity.
The principal justification for fixing the date of the Maba cave in the very latest part of the late Middle Pleistocene or in the early Late Pleistocene seems to be the morphology of the hominid remains.
Teeth, during Farsun Week, reached a climax today when the Planetary Prosecutor presented charges against fourteen individuals allegedly responsible for the abduction of Renna Aarons, Peripatetic Emissary from the Hominid Phylum.
We shall now discuss issues related to the potassium-argon dating of the formations yielding hominid fossils in Java, as well as attempts to date the fossils themselves by various chemical and radiometric methods.
But because Java man was found in Middle Pleistocene strata, the extensive evidence for tool-making hominids in the far earlier Pliocene and Miocene periods no longer received much serious attention.
Some factor of tree-of-life, or a subcritical dose of it, might trigger just enough of the change to do that for a hominid.
Baxter turns his hand to another Big Scientific Topic with this look at human evolution, from the unpromising Mesozoic start of the hominid line to its last gasp in the failing days of Earth.
Blight almost one hundred and fifty parsecs from Branner lies the home world of a primitive race of hominids, little visited by the rest of the galaxy.
It discussed the light sculptures with Rathere, comparing their evanescent forms to the shattered structures of Camelia Parker or the hominid blobs of Henry Moore.
Eugene Dubois of Java man, the first proto-human hominid between Dryopithecus and modern humans.
Most of these fossils and artifacts were unearthed before the discovery by Eugene Dubois of Java man, the first protohuman hominid between Dryopithecus and modern humans.