what is mean by hominoids and hominids features
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Some characteristics that have distinguished hominins from other primates, living and extinct, are their erect posture, bipedal locomotion, larger brains, and behavioral characteristics such as specialized tool use and, in some cases, communication through language.
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The most commonly used recent definitions are:
Hominid – the group consisting of all modern and extinct Great Apes (that is, modern humans, chimpanzees, gorillas and orang-utans plus all their immediate ancestors).
Hominin – the group consisting of modern humans, extinct human species and all our immediate ancestors (including members of the genera Homo, Australopithecus, Paranthropus and Ardipithecus).
Related factsheets
Homo erectus, Homo habilis, Homo heidelbergensis, Homo antecessor, Homo rudolfensis, Homo floresiensis, Homo eragaster, Homo naledia, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo sapiens
Australopithecus sediba, Australopithecus africanus, Australopithecus bahrelghazali, Australopithecus afarensis, Australopithecus anamensis, Australopithecus garhi
Ardipithecus kadabba, Ardipithecus ramidus
Previous definitions
The term ‘hominid’ used to have the same meaning that ‘hominin’ now has. It was therefore a very useful term to designate the line leading to modern humans and was used when referring to various members of our human evolutionary tree.
‘Hominid’ has now been assigned a broader meaning and now refers to all Great Apes and their ancestors. This new terminology is being used in many scientific journals already, and it is only a matter of time (but possibly many years) before everyone catches up to using the new term.