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Homininae (the hominines), is a subfamily of the family Hominidae (hominids). (The Homininae— / h ɒ m ɪ ˈ n aɪ n iː / —encompass humans, and are also called "African hominids" or "African apes".) [1] [2] This subfamily includes two tribes, Hominini and Gorillini, both having extant (or living) species as well as extinct species.
The Hominidae (/ h ɒ ˈ m ɪ n ɪ d iː /), whose members are known as the great apes [note 1] or hominids (/ ˈ h ɒ m ɪ n ɪ d z /), 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 chimpanzee and the bonobo); and Homo, of which only modern humans ...
Proactively proposed species names for Denisovans are H. denisova [3] or H. altaiensis. [4] Some older findings may or may not belong to the Denisovan line, but Asia is not well mapped in regard to human evolution. Such findings include the Dali skull, [5] the Xujiayao hominin, [6] Maba Man, the Jinniushan hominin, and the Narmada Human. [7]
Range maps are provided wherever possible; if a range map is not available, a description of the hominoid's range is provided. Ranges are based on the IUCN Red List for that species unless otherwise noted. All extinct genera, species, or subspecies listed alongside extant species went extinct after 1500 CE, and are indicated by a dagger symbol
Homo (from Latin homō ' human ') is a genus of great ape (family Hominidae) that emerged from the genus Australopithecus and encompasses only a single extant species, Homo sapiens (modern humans), along with a number of extinct species (collectively called archaic humans) classified as either ancestral or closely related to modern humans; these include Homo erectus and Homo neanderthalensis.
Orrorin is an extinct genus of primate within Homininae from the Miocene Lukeino Formation and Pliocene Mabaget Formation, both of Kenya. The type species is O. tugenenesis, named in 2001, [1] and a second species, O. praegens, [2] assigned to the genus in 2022. [3]
Sahelanthropus is an extinct genus of hominid dated to about during the Late Miocene. The type species, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, was first announced in 2002, based mainly on a partial cranium, nicknamed Toumaï, discovered in northern Chad. The definitive phylogenetic position of Sahelanthropus within
Australopithecus africanus – Extinct hominid from South Africa; Australopithecus sediba – Two-million-year-old hominin from the Cradle of Humankind; Homo ergaster – Extinct species or subspecies of archaic human; Homo gautengensis – Name proposed for an extinct species of hominin from South Africa