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Homo (from Latin homō 'human') is a genus of great ape (family Hominidae) that emerged from the genus Australopithecus and encompasses only a single extant species, Homo sapiens (modern humans), along with a number of extinct species (collectively called archaic humans) classified as either ancestral or closely related to modern humans; these include Homo erectus and Homo neanderthalensis.
Homininae (the hominines), is a subfamily of the family Hominidae (hominids). (The Homininae— / h ɒ m ɪ ˈ n aɪ n iː / —encompass humans, and are also called "African hominids" or "African apes".) [1] [2] This subfamily includes two tribes, Hominini and Gorillini, both having extant (or living) species as well as extinct species.
The Hominidae (/ h ɒ ˈ m ɪ n ɪ d iː /), whose members are known as the great apes [note 1] or hominids (/ ˈ h ɒ m ɪ n ɪ d z /), are a taxonomic family of primates that includes eight extant species in four genera: Pongo (the Bornean, Sumatran and Tapanuli orangutan); Gorilla (the eastern and western gorilla); Pan (the chimpanzee and the bonobo); and Homo, of which only modern humans ...
The December 2005 issue of The Economist depicts hominids progressing up a flight of stairs to transform into a woman in a black dress holding a glass of champagne to illustrate "The Story of Man". [12] British rapper, Digga D, adapted a version of the image for the cover of his third mixtape, Noughty by Nature. [13]
Paranthropus robustus is a species of robust australopithecine from the Early and possibly Middle Pleistocene of the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa, about 2.27 to 0.87 (or, more conservatively, 2 to 1) million years ago. [1]
The first known hominids evolved in Africa. According to paleontology, the early hominids' skull anatomy was similar to that of the gorilla and the chimpanzee, great apes that also evolved in Africa, but the hominids had adopted a bipedal locomotion which freed their hands.
Zlatý kůň woman: 43 Homo sapiens: 1950 Czech Republic: Tianyuan man: 40.5±1.5 Homo sapiens: 2007 China: Amud 1 [139] 41 [140] Homo neanderthalensis: 1961 Israel: Hisashi Suzuki: Neanderthal 1 [141] 40 Homo neanderthalensis: 1856 Germany: Johann Carl Fuhlrott: Denisova hominin (X-Woman) 40 Homo sp. Altai: 2008 Russia: Johannes Krause, et al ...
Paranthropus is a genus of extinct hominin which contains two widely accepted species: P. robustus and P. boisei.However, the validity of Paranthropus is contested, and it is sometimes considered to be synonymous with Australopithecus.