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- noun Plural form of
hominoid .
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You would be safe thinking of the latter as the "hominoids" and the others as "Miocene apes" since they mostly lived in the Miocene and the "hominoids" kept it simple by leaving very few fossils behind.
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You would be safe thinking of the latter as the "hominoids" and the others as "Miocene apes" since they mostly lived in the Miocene and the "hominoids" kept it simple by leaving very few fossils behind.
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My husband and I sometimes take turns touring sites restricted to hominoids.
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This study provides a survey of mandibular shape in a sample of extant hominoids (Pan, Gorilla, Pongo, and Hylobates), as well as extinct Asian and Eurasian taxa (Ouranopithecus, Sivapithecus, and Gigantopithecus) in order to compare overall shape similarity.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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My husband and I sometimes take turns touring sites restricted to hominoids.
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"Genomic divergences between humans and other hominoids and the effective population size of the common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees".
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Under the current classification system there are two families of hominoids:
Ardi is a million years older than Lucy - The Panda's Thumb 2009
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An off-site occurrence of the Eocene-Oligocene Gebel Qatrani formation north of Lake Qarun within the Lake Qarun Protected Area have revealed the fossils of ancestral elephants, a two-horned mammal Arsinotherium, and eight primate lineages, including two genera of the earliest known hominoids.
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There are display cases filled with replica skulls of Gigantopithecus and gorilla, the famed British Columbian carved stone head and foot bowl of Sasquatch, a Chehalis First Nations Sasquatch mask from British Columbia, and descriptive panels all around discussing hairy hominoids.
Boing Boing 2006
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So while it's true that indriids (and other leaping strepsirrhines) do have a few morphological similarities with hominoids, the body of evidence indicate that our lineage went through a cautious climbing, folivorous phase, and not a leaping indriid-like one.
Literally, flying lemurs (and not dermopterans) Darren Naish 2006
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