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hominin

noun

Etymology

From translingual Hominini, from the stem of Latin homo (“man”). Compare hominid.

  1. derived from homo
  2. derived from Hominini

Definitions

  1. Any member of the taxonomic tribe Hominini, the evolutionary group that includes modern…

    Any member of the taxonomic tribe Hominini, the evolutionary group that includes modern humans and now-extinct bipedal relatives.

    • [...] prefer the third explanation for the advanced-looking features of Neandertals (Chapter 7) and the Ngandong hominins (Chapter 6), but they have had little to say about the post-Erectine archaics from China.
    • Caspari and Lee carried out comparisons ranging from ancient hominins such as australopithecines through to Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons, assessing the ratios of young adults to old adults.
    • This means that, in addition to democracy and gorillas, we must now credit Greece with being the cradle of the hominins - of which we humans are the only living representatives.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hominin. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA