hominin
Any member of the taxonomic tribe Hominini, the evolutionary group that includes…Any member of the taxonomic tribe Hominini, the evolutionary group that includes modern humans and now-extinct bipedal relatives.
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Meaning
1 sensesAny member of the taxonomic tribe Hominini, the evolutionary group that includes modern humans and now-extinct bipedal relatives.
Hominini
Examples
4 sentencesWhen did hominins develop language?
If our hominin ancestors could have written their stories down, history would be much longer than it is.
Early hominins populated the Pacific islands long before the first modern humans arrived.
Hominins are the most LGBT clade: they comprise Homo and Pan.
Translations
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Origin
From translingual Hominini, from the stem of Latin homo (“man”). Compare hominid.From translingual Hominini, from the stem of Latin homo (“man”). Compare hominid.
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