Noun
hominin (plural hominins)
(paleontology) Any member of the taxonomic tribe Hominini, the evolutionary group that includes modern humans and now-extinct bipedal relatives. [from 20th c.]
Archaeological discoveries in Kenya in 2015, identifying possibly the oldest known evidence of hominin use of tools to date, have indicated that Kenyanthropus platyops may have been the earliest tool-users known. Source: Internet
American thought has evolved during the “four-field approach”, skeletons, artifacts, language and culture and many (ways of life), based upon studies on the remains of the North American hominin clade. Source: Internet
Consequently, the authors argue it is no longer tenable to extrapolate from chimpanzees in reconstructions of early hominin social and mating behaviour, providing further evidence against the so-called 'chimpanzee referential model'. Source: Internet
In a study that assumes the hominin status of Ardipithecus ramidus, it has been argued the species represents a heterochronic alteration of the more general great ape body plan. Source: Internet
It seems unlikely that Gigantopithecus would have evolved these uniquely hominin traits in parallel." Source: Internet
New hominin genus from eastern Africa shows diverse middle Pliocene lineages, Nature, Volume 410, pgs. 433-440 Lieberman, D. E. (2001). Source: Internet