Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various primates of the tribe Hominini, including Australopithecus, other Pliocene and Pleistocene human relatives, and Homo sapiens, the only extant species. The hominins were formerly referred to as hominids.

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

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From New Latin Hominīnī, tribe name : Latin homō, homin-, human being, man; see dhghem- in Indo-European roots + New Latin -īnī, suff. forming tribe names (from Latin īnī, pl. of īnus, n. suff.; see –ine).]

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Examples

  • This is scarcely a sigh on the scale of long-term hominin evolution, some six million years of transformation that is the main concern of the impressive David H. Koch H.ll of H.man Origins, which opened this week at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural H.story.

    NYT > Home Page By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN 2010

  • A hominin is a member of the tribe Hominini, a hominine is a member of the subfamily Homininae, a hominid is a member of the family Hominidae, and a hominoid is a member of the superfamily Hominoidea.

    Meet Selam - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • Re “A hominin is a member of the tribe Hominini,…”

    Meet Selam - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • A hominin is a member of the tribe Hominini, a hominine is a member of the subfamily Homininae, a hominid is a member of the family Hominidae, and a hominoid is a member of the superfamily Hominoidea.

    Meet Selam - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • The fossils - including the most complete hand known in an early hominin, which is missing only a few bones and belonged to the mature female specimen - showed its hand was capable of the strong grasping needed for tree-climbing, but that it also had a long thumb and short fingers.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • The scientists cannot say if the "hominin" was male or female, but adopted the name tag "X-woman" because the discovery was based on maternally inherited DNA.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • The scientists cannot say if the "hominin" was male or female, but adopted the name tag "X-woman" because the discovery was based on maternally inherited DNA.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • The scientists cannot say if the "hominin" was male or female, but adopted the name tag "X-woman" because the discovery was based on maternally inherited DNA.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • The extinct "hominin" (human-like creature) lived in Central Asia between 48,000 and 30,000 years ago.

    BBC - Ouch 2010

  • The discoverers of the 4. 4-million - year-old fossil proposed that she was a new kind of hominin, the family that includes humans and our ancestors but not the ancestors of other living apes.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows govindab 2010

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