The nariokotome boy discovered at lake turkana (homo erectus) has modern human traits such as shorter arms and longer legs than those of earlier hominids.
What is hominid?
- The Hominidae, which includes eight living species in four genera Pongo, Gorilla, Pan, and Homo of which only modern humans are still living are classified as big apes or hominids in taxonomy.
- Any member of the family (Hominidae) of erect bipedal primate mammals, which also includes extinct ancestors and related species as well as modern humans and, in some classifications, big apes.
- The family that includes all living and extinct great apes.
- The primary distinction between hominid and hominin is that the former refers to the family to which humans belong while the latter refers to the level of the tribe to which humans belong.
- In between the subfamily and genus is the tribe level.
- Bipedal and with large brains, hominids.
- In order to walk upright, they have developed a number of skeletal adaptations, including curved vertebrae and inclined femurs.
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