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• For most apes and probably for early hominids, we wouldn't expect much dadlike behavior.2008, Robert Engelman, More. From the entry dadlike
• It is likely that ramidus was the ancestor of all subsequent hominid species, including our own.2006, Henry Kong, A History of the Universe: Volume I: Complexity, page 117. From the entry ramidus
• The now eyes-wide-open-with-fear hominid was in serious need of an antiantidote to counter the antidote.2004, Leonard Shlain, Sex, Time, and Power, page 281. From the entry antiantidote
• The present forelimb of the hominids is incomprehensible without prior arboreal life.1964, Jack Hale Prost, Readings on human evolution, page 15. From the entry fourhandedness
• Culture was the work of some more or less pithecanthropoid type of hominid (e.g.1960, Alan Houghton Brodrick, Man and his ancestry, page 96. From the entry pithecanthropoid
• Many enthusiasts believe that Bigfoot is not some sort of undiscovered hominid, but rather a mystical being that moves between dimensions.2019, Christopher D. Bader, Joseph O. Baker, “Bigfoot: Undiscovered Primate or Interdimensional Spirit?”, in Deviance Management…. From the entry bigfoot
• Then there are the sharp divisions of opinion about whether Bigfoot is a Gigantopithecus or a Neanderthal or some other hominid.2016, Bryan Sykes, “The Guru”, in Bigfoot, Yeti, and the Last Neanderthal: A Geneticist’s Search for Modern Apemen, Disinformation Books…. From the entry bigfoot
• She was 3.2 million years old, and belonged to a new species of hominid now known as Australopithecus afarensis.2016 August 29, Ed Yong, “What Killed the World’s Most Famous Fossil?”, in The Atlantic. From the entry lucy
• Ramidus was either an early intermediate hominid or a dead end that faded out without diverging into more species.2013, Martin Malloy, Evolution in a Nutshell, page 137. From the entry ramidus
• He didn't use a rope, and he felt that any hominid with any dexterity could have pulled off the climb.2007, Richard Preston, “Detonation Zone”, in The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN. From the entry ladder
• Upright posture evolved well before an enlarged brain in hominids.2006, Neil A. Campbell, Biology: concepts & connections, page 404. From the entry upright
• Some of these models continue to emphasize the importance of hunting, others "baboonize" hominid origins by positing a baboon-like adaptation.1999, Milford H. Wolpoff, Paleoanthropology, page 224. From the entry baboonize
• The older brain is very old indeed, and in its super-primate form served hominids well during their long hunting-and-gathering period.1979, Howard L. Parsons, Man Today: Problems, Values and Fulfillment, →ISBN, page 143. From the entry super-primate
• If the hominid became bipedal in order to run after his prey, where did this bipedal plant-eater come from?1972, Elaine Morgan, The Descent of Woman, New York: Stein and Day, page 156. From the entry Tarzanist
• The novel's most Frankensteinian or Moreauvian project is again an exercise in 'man-making', the engineering of a new strain of hominid, the Crakers.2008 February 19, Philip Armstrong, What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity, Routledge, →ISBN, page 194. From the entry Moreauvian
• The sivatherines became the dominant giraffids of the late Miocene terrestrial ecosystems and persisted in Africa until the early Pleistocene, coexisting with the first hominids.2005, Jordi Agust, Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids. From the entry sivatherine
• The extremely robust hominids do not appear on the scene until about 2 million years ago, followed shortly thereafter by an "advanced" gracile.1981, Nancy Makepeace Turner, “Early Hominid Lifeways: The Critical Role of an Interpretive Framework”, in On Becoming Human, Cambridge…. From the entry gracile
• Here were found an abundant fossil fauna, three hominid teeth and over two thousand artefacts of a type more advanced than those of Pithecanthropus pekinensis.1960, Alan Houghton Brodrick, “The Pithecanthropoids”, in Man and His Ancestry, London: The Scientific Book Club, →OCLC, page 134. From the entry artefact

Meaning of hominid

1. noun Any human, the only members of the family Hominidae as traditionally defined.
2. noun Any anthropoid of the taxonomic family Hominidae, which includes all the great apes (chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans) as well as humans.
3. adjective Of the Hominidae.

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How do you use hominid in a sentence?

Hominid is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “For most apes and probably for early hominids, we wouldn't expect much dadlike behavior.”

What is a short sentence with hominid?

“Upright posture evolved well before an enlarged brain in hominids.”

What does hominid mean?

Hominid means any human, the only members of the family Hominidae as traditionally defined.