hominid
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- adjective
- /ˈhɒmɪnɪd/
- Specialized
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homínido
- It's because consciousness is seated in the hominid brain and certain parts of the mammalian brain.
- hominid fossils
- early hominid
- hominid evolution
But what that meant is love in our, our hominid evolution was distributed in communities, right?
- But what that meant is love in our, our hominid evolution was distributed in communities, right?
Examples
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Fisher argues that the reshaped pelvic anatomy would lead to hominid females experiencing difficult births and many dying young.
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Since Darwin's day, paleoanthropologists have energetically sought the key to hominid erectness in many different places.
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Graph: The hominid family tree.
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Besides, they started to interbreed with other hominid species such as Neanderthals.
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As best we know, the Arctic has been frozen for the entirety of hominid evolution.
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Well, it is clear that bipedalism arose quite early in hominid history, even if no one can be certain, in the strictest genealogical sense, that the earliest hominid was an upright biped.
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In 1891, Dutch physician Eugene Dubois found hominid fossils in Trinil, Java, but many scientists were skeptical of his finds.
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The study of early tools gives insight into the hominid behavior and intelligence.
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Recent discoveries have shed light on the hominid lineage leading directly to modern humans.
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Researchers are examining the diet of hominid species to understand their survival strategies.
Synonyms
Relating to humans and their early relatives
Surface Forms
Morphology
hominid = human (opaque) = homin + id
The adjective sense is formed the same way as the noun: the combining form 'homin-' with the scientific suffix '-id' yields a technical adjective; the morphological pieces are not familiar standalone English morphemes for most learners.
Etymology
Hominid as an adjective comes from the Latin homo 'human' plus -id 'group', so it means 'related to the human family'. That's why we call features like walking upright or smaller canine teeth hominid traits when they link a fossil to humans.