hominids

Cultural

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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Hominids and hylobatids diverged from a common ancestor around 20 million years ago.

From Science Daily • Oct. 29, 2025

Hominids, the name for human-like primates, started in eastern Africa several million years ago.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

He has written more than 20 acclaimed books, such as Flash Forward, The Terminal Experiment, Hominids, and Mindscan.

From BBC • Jun. 24, 2014

Hominids started shaping stone tools about 2.6 million years ago.

From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2010

Hominids grew big on meat, and smart on that lovely brain-feeder, glucose, which they got from fruit, roots and tubers.

From Time Magazine Archive

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