hominoid
noun
hom·i·noid
ˈhä-mə-ˌnȯid 
: any of a superfamily (Hominoidea) of primates including recent hominids, gibbons, and pongids together with extinct ancestral and related forms (as of the genera Proconsul and Dryopithecus)
hominoid
adjective
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Other studies found that environmental changes could have led to evolution because limited resources or changes in habitat may have forced early hominoids to move to more suitable climates or learn other ways to obtain food.
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Discover Magazine, 29 Jan. 2024
Other researchers are converging upon a similar recalibration of mutational rates which might push back the time until the last common ancestor of many divergent hominoid and hominin lineages (including modern humans).
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2011
Its enormous size—13 inches—also suggests a magnificent hominoid, a King Kong type of image!
—National Geographic, 19 Aug. 2017
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Discover Magazine, 29 Jan. 2024
Other researchers are converging upon a similar recalibration of mutational rates which might push back the time until the last common ancestor of many divergent hominoid and hominin lineages (including modern humans).
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2011
Its enormous size—13 inches—also suggests a magnificent hominoid, a King Kong type of image!
—National Geographic, 19 Aug. 2017
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hominoid
noun
hom·i·noid
ˈhäm-ə-ˌnȯid
: any member of the superfamily Hominoidea
also
: an animal that resembles humans
hominoid
adjective
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