Hominin

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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."

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caveman

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""Matt, did you know at least nine different hominin species lived simultaneously on our Earth, hundreds of thousands of years ago?" "And we're the only ones to survive, Arnie?" "Yeah!""

Etymology

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

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