In the
second week of Term One, we were discussing how animals belong to a variety of
families. We discussed how dogs were from the canine family, cats were felines,
but were curious about what family humans are in. After searching on Google,
using the search terms ‘human’ and ‘family we found the following information:
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Australopithecus africanus reconstruction
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Pongidae Elliot, 1913
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The Hominidae
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/hɒˈmɪnɨdiː/; anglicized hominids, also known as great
apes[notes 1]), as the term is used here, form
a taxonomic family, including four extant genera: chimpanzees (Pan), gorillas (Gorilla), humans (Homo), and orangutans (Pongo).[1]
