Hominid and Hominins
a) Who are hominids?
b) Who was the earliest human ancestor to make tools in Africa?
c) How are the modern humans known?
d) Name any one species of this tribe.
Answers
Answer:
a .The Hominidae, whose members are known as great apes or hominids, are a taxonomic family of primates that includes eight extant species in four genera: Pongo, the Bornean, Sumatran and Tapanuli orangutan;
b.The standard hypothesis, now called into question, associated toolmaking with the first signs of significant brain expansion in the first Homo species, which emerged about two million years ago and was accordingly given the name Homo habilis, "handy man."
c.Modern humans originated in Africa within the past 200,000 years and evolved from their most likely recent common ancestor, Homo erectus, which means 'upright man' in Latin. Homo erectus is an extinct species of human that lived between 1.9 million and 135,000 years ago.
d . Examples include the tribes Caprini (goat-antelopes), Hominini (hominins), Bombini (bumblebees), and Thunnini (tunas). The tribe Hominini is divided into subtribes by some scientists; subtribe Hominina then comprises "humans". The standard ending for the name of a zoological subtribe is "-ina".