Question

Difference between hominoids and hominidae in points.

Answer 1

Hominoids are apes. They’re tailless primates with large brains. There are a number of extant members, but they can be divided into two groups: the gibbons (family Hylobatidae, or the lesser apes) and the great apes, which are members of the family Hominidae, and are called…

Hominids. This is a fairly small group, with the extant members being the orangutans (two species, Bornean and Sumatran), the gorillas (two species, Western and Eastern), the chimpanzees (two species, bonobo and common), and humans. Humans are the only surviving members of the…

Hominins. This group includes humans and every ape that’s more closely related to us than to chimpanzees (which are, of course, all extinct). So all the Australopithecines, Sahelanthropus, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis, and all the other members of the (up until recently) fairly prolific human branch. It’s important not to confuse this group with the hominines, which are hominins plus chimpanzees and gorillas (or alternatively all hominids that are more closely related to us than to orangutans).

And do remember that all hominins are hominids and all hominids are hominoids.