hominids

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1. The biological family that includes our species, Homo sapiens. This family has also included Neanderthals and other forerunners of today's humans, such as Australopithecus, Homo erectus, and Homo habilis. Today's human beings are the only surviving hominids.

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Like early hominids, birds craft sticks and stones into tools.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

While brown bears don’t eat humans, they still kill about twice as many hominids as the North American black bear, mostly in protection of their cubs.

From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2024

Previous work on Pierolapithecus suggests that an upright body plan preceded adaptations that allowed hominids to hang from tree branches and move among them.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2023

Since then, clear proof of systematic cannibalism among hominids has emerged in the fossil record.

From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2023

Impulses of hominids dating from 20,000 B.C. were still controlling us.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides