Bilaterally symmetrical animals
FAMILY: Great Apes
Great apes which are tall hominoids which have dexterous hands.
Male hominids are notably bigger than their female mates.
Offspring of hominidae take notably longer to mature than other mammals.
Hominids do not have a distinct mating season.
The hominidae became a distinguishable group of its own around 15 million years ago.
Hominidae can be split into two subfamilies. These subfamilies are ponginae and homininae.
Ponginae contains genera of which orangutans are the only one which is extant.
Homininae contains the more closely related gorillas, chimpanzees and humans.
Therefore humans evolved from the homininae.
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Orangutans and extinct relatives. |
Gorillas, chimpanzees and humans. |
