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hominid Definition

homi·nid (hämə nid)

noun

any of a family (Hominidae) of two-legged primates including all forms of humans, extinct and living

Etymology: < ModL Hominidae < L homo (gen. hominis): see homo & -idae

hominid Synonyms

hominid

n.

human, early human, prehistoric human, cave dweller, caveman, cliff dweller, troglodyte, aborigine, savage, Stone-Age man, Paleolithic man, early man, ape man, dawn man, primitive man, Homo sapiens fossilis (Latin); see man 2.

Terms for early human or humanlike creatures include: Acheulean, Aurignacian, Australopithecus afarensis, Azilian, Chellean, Combe-Capelle, Creopithecus, Cro-Magnon, Eolithic, Homo habilis, Kenyapithecus, Magdalenian, Mousterian, Neanderthal man, Stone Age man, neolithic man, Paleolithic man, Peking man, Homo erectus, Heidelberg man, Pithecanthropus, Java man, Prechellean, Proconsul africanus, Rhodesian, Solutrean, Steinheim man, Swanscombe man, Trinil, Zinjanthropus.

hominid Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • evolve: It also suggests that hominids evolved quickly when they set off on their own evolutionary path.
  • imagine: Imagine early hominids who, for good biological reasons, gained the ability to imitate each other and to develop simple language.
  • know: Age of earliest known hominids in Java, Indonesia.

Adjective modifier

  • Pleistocene: This suggests that most Mode 1 assemblages are a result of environmental adaptations by Pleistocene hominids in the region.
  • fossil: Fossil Hominids Much of human evolution is well documented by the fossil record.
  • early: The development of upright walking in early hominids is still an area of some debate.
  • first: It is science which has dated the first hominids to several million years ago and Homo sapiens to less than 200,000 years ago.
  • other: It was a very tall species, towering above other hominids alive at the time especially the stumpy Homo habilis.
  • late: His explanation of certain developments in later hominids, explained solely through the necessity to search for food, is less convincing.

Modifies a noun

  • fossil: In the absence of hominid fossils from the region we can only speculate at present.
  • ancestor: Like industry, language started as a rudimentary system in our faraway hominid ancestors and steadily developed to become today's complex systems.
  • evolution: In four chapters he tracks hominid evolution from primate to Homo sapiens from a deterministic perspective.
  • occupation: The ESR dates tend to confirm earlier age estimates of hominid occupation from 550 ka to 300 ka BP.
  • specie: In the intervening period there was a host of different hominid species, many of which died out.
  • brain: A stone's throw and its launch window: timing precision and its implications for language and hominid brains.

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