Meaning and Definition of Hominid

Definition of hominid

The term hominid is of special importance to learn and know the real history of the evolution of the human being. Hominids to all those primates that are ancestors of man, in addition to also include it to him are. Logically, the grouping is established from both sides (apes and humans) share each other elements such as Anatomy, posture and some customs.
The family of hominids, or Hominidae in latin, is composed of several subfamilies and genera from which you can reach the human being from the differentiation of some formative elements. In this sense, we can point out that this family is divided into two subfamilies: the Ponginae and the Homininae, the most abundant of the two. While among the first we find animals like orangutans today, in the second, proceed to a new division, this time in tribes. Tribe Gorillini is which covers to gorilla and the tribe Hominini includes chimpanzees (of the genus Pan) and current humans (genus Homo).
Although the term hominid includes different types of apes, used especially to refer to ancestors closer to man, those already showing some kind of evolution of apes such as the chimpanzee.
In the Homo genus the only surviving specimen is Homo Sapiens Sapiens, i.e. the modern man. However, other hominids of the same genre such as Australopithecus, the Neanderthal man or Homo Erectus were especially important to understand the evolutionary nature of the human being, having gone through stages involving the early manufacture of tools, the scope of positions over upright and bipedal, cranial capacity large and efficient development, the proportionality between the four members of the body , etc.