hominid

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A hominid is really any extinct ape more closely related to us than the chimpanzee.
原始人類中任何一個滅絕的猿物種和我們的關系都比黑猩猩更密切。
H. erectus is generally believed to be the direct ancestor of modern humans and also the first hominid to live in caves and tame fire.
人們通常認爲直立人是現(xiàn)代人的直接祖先，也是第一個生活在洞穴中和學會用火的原始人類。
DNA studies, for example, suggest that our ancient human ancestors interbred, with Neanderthals possibly being absorbed into our gene pool and disappearing as their own distinct hominid species.
例如，DNA研究就顯示古代人類的祖先也曾進行襍交，尼安德特人的基因很可能已被我們的基因庫所吸收，而他們做爲不同的原始人類物種卻已經消失。

Yes,you can see horns." These 500 to 1000-year-old cave paintings are young compared to the skeleton of Ardi, an upright hominid more than four million years old discovered in Ethiopia's Great Rift Valley .

In other words, we are descended from hominid wusses who thrived because they kept away from spiders.
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By far the most complete hominid skeletons in the world have been found here, dating back two million years.
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a member of a group that consists of humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orang-utangs, or an early form of one of these