The Hominini (hominins) form a taxonomic tribe of the subfamily Homininae (hominines). They comprise two extant genera: Homo (humans) and Pan (chimpanzees and bonobos), and in standard usage exclude the genus Gorilla (gorillas), which is grouped separately within the subfamily Homininae.

2025年2月17日 · Hominin, any member of the zoological ‘tribe’ Hominini (family Hominidae, order Primates), of which only one species exists today—Homo sapiens. The term is used most often to refer to extinct members of the human lineage, including Homo neanderthalensis, Homo erectus, and various species of Australopithecus.

2023年9月28日 · Hominids constitute the biological family of bipedal primates, encompassing chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, and humans, among other animal species. Hominins are a category within hominids.

2020年11月22日 · Over the last few years, the word "hominin" has crept into the public news stories about our human ancestors. This is not a misspelling for hominid; this reflects an evolutionary change in the understanding of what it means to be human. But it is admittedly confusing to scholars and students alike.

2020年9月24日 · What is a Hominin? A hominid is any ancestor of apes (including us); a homimin is any ancestor on only the human family tree. In order to adequately understand a discussion of hominin evolution and appreciate changes over time, …

A Hominin is any member of the primate tribe Hominini, a classification that generally is considered to include only humans (genus Homo), chimpanzees (Pan), and their extinct ancestors.

2021年8月15日 · A Hominin, is AMH (Anatomically Modern Humans), all and all of our extinct ancestors. So bipedal walking apes. All members of the Homo Genus, Australopithecus Genus, and Paranthropus Genus, belong to the Hominin family.

We are hominins, as are all those bipedal apes that came before us. Figure 5.1 shows most of the hominin species through time, some of which we are descended from and some that are side branches in our tribal tree! Hominin species through time. “Hominin species distributed through time” from “ Paleoanthropology ” in Wikipedia is licensed CC-BY-SA.

2025年3月10日 · Here we present most of the midface of a hominin found at the TE7 level of the Sima del Elefante site (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain), dated to between 1.4 million and 1.1 million years ago.

2022年7月19日 · The term "hominin" has been revised over the past few decades and is now commonly used to describe all members of the human clade since its split from the shared ancestor with chimpanzees.