hominin
/hom-uh-nin/US // ˈhɒm ə nɪn //
类人猿,人形生物,人形动物,人造人
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
Anthropology, Zoology.
- : any member of the group consisting of all modern and extinct humans and their immediate ancestors, specifically members of the tribe Hominini.
Examples
Ancient humans and their hominin ancestors really didn’t have much of a problem with cavities.
In the last few hundred thousand years, multiple species of hominins existed and interbred with each other.
To me, the greatest revelation of your research is we didn’t evolve from hominins that walked on all fours.
One of the things we’re learning from new fossil discoveries is there appears to be these different species of early human, or hominin, coexisting on the landscape with different anatomies or adaptations in their feet and legs.
These hominins were living in environments that had fewer and fewer trees.
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