hominids in English

noun
1
a primate of a family ( Hominidae ) that includes humans and their fossil ancestors.
It may be possible to extract DNA from the bones of human ancestors and other hominids who died up to one million years ago, researchers believe.

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1. Australopithecus is a genus of extinct hominids closely related to humans.

2. Scientific evidence indicates that the first hominids (humanlike creatures) belonged to a group called Australopithecus

3. There are currently two existing branches of the superfamily Apes (Hominoidea): the lesser Apes (gibbons), and the great Apes (hominids).

4. One of the earliest known hominids, a 4.4-million-year-old partial skeleton of a female dubbed Ardi, had hands suited for climbing trees and swinging …

5. Blighters (or "Umazheh" or "Umazeh" in their own language) are a primitive and violent race of hominids, split in many tribes often fighting among themselves

6. Australopithecine definition is - any of various extinct hominids (genera Australopithecus and Paranthropus) that existed two to four million years ago in southern and eastern Africa and include gracile and robust forms exhibiting bipedal locomotion, near-human dentition, and relatively small brains.

7. Definition of Australopithecus : a genus of extinct early hominids of southern and eastern Africa comprising the australopithecines when considered to include both the gracile and robust forms The advanced prehuman Australopithecus first appears in the middle Pliocene, 3.5 million years ago …

8. Australopithecus The genus Australopithecus (Latin australis "southern", Greek πίθηκος pithekos "ape") is a genus of extinct hominids, made up of the gracile australopiths, and formerly also included their larger relatives, the robust australopiths (which are now given their own genus)

9. The OP asked us: Who is the Classiest woman, ever? I must ask if that includes Neanderthal women and even earlier hominids or is it limited to Homo Sapiens Sapiens? If so, that means females born after the range of 0.8 to 0.3 million years ago.

10. ‘It's possible, for example, that early hominids living as Bipeds in patchy forests became easier targets for leopards and other predators.’ ‘In an upright biped, like humans and Australopithecines, the head is balanced on top of the spine, whereas in the quadruped like a chimpanzee the head is slung from the front of the spine.’