Hominidae
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https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/tag/4514
- Note
- "The Hominidae (/hɒˈmɪnɪdiː/), whose members are known as great apes[note 1] or hominids (/ˈhɒmɪnɪdz/), are a taxonomic family of primates that includes eight extant species in four genera: Pongo, the Bornean, Sumatran and Tapanuli orangutan; Gorilla, the eastern and western gorilla; Pan, the common chimpanzee and the bonobo; and Homo, of whom only modern humans remain, with several extinct relatives (e.g., the Neanderthal) and ancestors, such as Homo erectus.
Several revisions in classifying the great apes have caused the use of the term "hominid" to vary over time. The original meaning of "hominid" referred only to humans (Homo) and their closest extinct relatives. That restrictive meaning has now been largely assumed by the term "hominin", which comprises all members of the human clade after the split from the chimpanzees (Pan). The current, 21st-century meaning of "hominid" includes all the great apes including humans. Usage still varies, however, and some scientists and laypersons still use "hominid" in the original restrictive sense; the scholarly literature generally shows the traditional usage until around the turn of the 21st century." - (en.wikipedia.org 16.12.2019)
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Gemeiner Schimpanse - Pan troglodytes (Schädel)
Die Gruppe der Schimpansen...
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Image: Naturhistorisches Museum Mainz / Landessammlung für Naturkunde Rheinland-Pfalz - CC BY-NC-SA -
Max, Gabriel von: Pithecanthropus Alalus: "Reconstruction von Menschenaffen" (1894)
Das Gemälde "Pithecanthropus...
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Image: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität: Ernst-Haeckel-Haus - CC BY-NC-SA -
UMB_0002001 | Gorilla gorilla, Gorilla | Fell
Klassifikation: Mammalia...
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Image: Übersee-Museum Bremen - CC BY-SA
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