hominin

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hominin

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

noun hominins

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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noun member of the tribe Hominini

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@misc{hominin_2026,
  title = {hominin},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hominin},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}