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A hominid comes under the family of hominidae that includes every creature, extinct or living and closely akin to Homo sapiens than to the chimpanzees.... It has to do with the terms hominid and hominidae.... This fauna is believed to be an ancestor of the humans, as also the modern apes, although quite distinct from all the other primates....
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Term Paper
The word "hominid" refers to "any of a family (Hominidae) of erect bipedal primate mammals comprising recent humans together with extinct ancestral and related forms" (Merriam Webster).... Hominids are included in the super-family of apes, the Hominoidea, in which the members are referred to as hominoids.... Still, the gracile australopithecines are considered to be the earliest known true hominids, because australopithecines and humans are biologically similar enough to be classified in the family Hominidae (Nickels)....
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human family tree traces not from a single lineage, but from a multi-branch ancestral history representing a number of bipedal species evolving along different evolutionary lines (Cremo and Thompson 690).... This paper analyses the fossil finds of Lucy- the first Australopithecus farensis, the “Hadar Skull” and the "First family," all discovered in Hadar, Ethiopia in 1974, 1992 and 1975 respectively and the Laetoli Footprints discovered in Tanzania by Mary Leakey in 1978....
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Research Paper
primates as predators needed this depth perception in order to track and pursue.... The AREA ONE: primates a) (b) (c) 2 It is the notharctine primate referred to as, Hesperolemur actius and it was wiped out towards the end of the Middle Eocene (47.... primates as predators needed this depth perception in order to track and pursue their prey....
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Chimpanzees are family members of the Hominidae, together with gorillas, orangutans and humans.... Chimpanzees differed from the human family group long time ago.... The chimpanzee taxonomy hierarchy is as follows; Suborder: Haplorrhini Infraorder: Simiiformes Superfamily: Hominoidea family: Hominidae Genus: Pan Species: P.... This essay discusses on the taxonomy of chimpanzee family and their biography....
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The following paper under the title 'The Presence of Hominids in Africa' presents the family Hominidae or hominids that belong to the superfamily Hominoidea which, as the fossil evidence suggests, were thought to exist in the Great Rift Valley of East Africa.... The hominidae mainly comprise of humans and our extinct ancestors.... round 54 million years ago, marking the beginning of the Eocene era, as the climate became cooler and drier, it influenced the replacement of Paleocene's mammals by the placental mammals counting primates....
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ozo: 'We are considered old world LARGE BODIED HOMINOIDS, belonging to the family of hominidae.... We are also referred to as HOMININS that is belonging to the class of hominidae.... Felicia: 'We are primates; that is, we are MAMMALS that belong to the order Primate.... Recently the people working on naming different animal species: the TAXONOMISTS have split up us primates into two sub-orders.... ark to Felicia: 'Since you are a female primate, tell us if there is any difference of social behaviors than that of male primates....
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This assignment "Advantages of Bipedalism" focuses on bipedal creatures, the pelvis structure, Orrorin tugenensis, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Ardipithecus kadabba, Ardipithecus ramidus, Early Pliocene, Middle Pliocene and Late Pliocene.... .... ... ... This assignment also discusses Homo sapiens idaltu that was found at Herta in Ethiopia and has been dated at 160,000 years ago....
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