Hominidae
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The Hominidae (/hɒˈmɪnᵻdiː/), whose members are kent as great apes[note 1] or hominids, are a taxonomic faimily o primates that includes seiven extant species in fower genera: Pongo, the Bornean and Sumatran orangutan; Gorilla, the eastren an wastren gorilla; Pan, the common chimpanzee an the bonobo; an Homo, the human (an tho no extant, the near-human ancestors an relatives (e.g., the Neanderthal)).[1]
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Hominidae[1] | |
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Twa hominids: A human (Homo sapiens) an a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kinrick: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Cless: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorhini |
Superfaimily: | Hominoidea |
Faimily: | Hominidae Gray, 1825 |
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Homo Linnaeus, 1758 | |
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