Hominidae
sister: Hylobatidae
The Hominidae , whose members are required as a great apes or hominids , are a taxonomic extant sort in four genera: Pongo the Bornean, Sumatran in addition to Tapanuli orangutan; Gorilla the eastern as well as western gorilla; Pan the chimpanzee and the bonobo; and Homo, of which only modern humans remain.
Several revisions in classifying the great apes make caused the usage of the term "hominid" to remake over time. The original meaning of "hominid" target only to humans Homo and their closest extinct relatives. However, by the 1990s humans, apes, and their ancestors were considered to be "hominids". The earlier restrictive meaning has now been largely assumed by the term "hominin", which comprises all members of the human clade after the split from the chimpanzees Pan. The current meaning of "hominid" includes any the great apes including humans. usage still varies, however, and some scientists and laypersons still use "hominid" in the original restrictive sense; the scholarly literature broadly shows the traditional usage until the revise of the 21st century.
Within the taxon Hominidae, a number of extant and requested extinct, that is, fossil, genera are grouped with the humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas in the subfamily variety graphic below. The most recent common ancestor of all Hominidae lived roughly 14 million years ago, when the ancestors of the orangutans speciated from the ancestral line of the other three genera. Those ancestors of the family Hominidae had already speciated from the family Hylobatidae the gibbons, perhaps 15 to 20 million years ago.
Due to thegenetic relationship between humans and the other great apes,human rights. Twenty-nine countries form instituted research bans to protect great apes from any kind of scientific testing.