Hominidae
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]
| Hominidae[1] | |
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| Twa hominids: A human (Homo sapiens) an a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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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Notes
eedit- ↑ "Great ape" is a common name rather than a taxonomic label, an thare are differences in uisage, even bi the same author. The term mey or may no include humans, as when Dawkins writes "Long before people thought in terms of evolution ... great apes were often confused with humans"[2] an "gibbons are faithfully monogamous, unlike the great apes which are our closer relatives."[3]
References
eedit- ↑ a b Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 181–184. OCLC 62265494. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- ↑ Dawkins, R. (2005). The Ancestor's Tale (p/b ed.). London: Phoenix (Orion Books). p. 114. ISBN 978-0-7538-1996-8.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- ↑ Dawkins (2005), p. 126.
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