Hominids and Hominins

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The Australian Museum provides a helpful definition of the terms hominid and hominin:

  • 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).



not to be confused with:

Humanoids