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The term hominid is of special importance for learn and know the real history of the evolution of the human being. Hominids are all those primates that are ancestors of man, in addition to including him. Logically, the grouping is established from the fact that both parties (apes and human beings) share elements with each other such as anatomy, posture and some traditions.

The family of hominids, u Hominidae in Latin, it is made up of several subfamilies and genera from which the human being can be reached from the differentiation of some formative elements. In this sense, we can point out that this family is divided into two subfamilies: the Ponginae and the Homininae, the more abundant of the two. While among the first we find animals like the current orangutans, in the second we will have to proceed to a new division, this time into tribes. The Gorillini tribe is the one that includes the gorillas and the Hominini tribe includes the chimpanzees (of the genderBread) and current human beings (of the genus Homo).

Although the term hominids includes the different types of apes, it is used especially to refer to the closest ancestors to man, those who already showed some kind of ape evolution such as the chimpanzee.

In the genre of Homo the only surviving specimen is the Homo Sapiens Sapiens, that is to say the present man. However, other hominids of the same genus such as Australopithecus, the Neanderthal man or the Homo Erectus were especially important to understand the evolutionary nature of the human being, having gone through stages that implied the manufacturing primitive tools, the attainment of more upright and bipedal postures, the development of larger and more efficient cranial capacities, the proportionality between the four limbs of the body, etc.