Majmunet njerez

**Hominidët** (Hominidae Gray, 1825) apo majmunet njerez (Hominidae, me heret  Pongidae) – ne kufizim me Gibbonet (Kleine Menschenaffen), të njohur gjithashtu si majmunë të mëdhenj [2], janë një familje primatësh që datojnë që nga Mioceni i poshtëm. Kjo familje përfshin orangutanë, gorilla, shimpanze, njerëz dhe disa grupe fosile, përfshirë australopitekinat.

## Historia 
Deri në fillimin e viteve 1960, vetëm njerëzit dhe gjinitë e zhdukura që besohet se i përkisnin linjës evolucionare të njeriut ishin klasifikuar si hominide. Termi është përdorur ndonjëherë ndonjëherë në gjuhë të përbashkët me atë kuptim.

### Historia taksonomike 
[parapamje|Humans, as depicted on a [Pioneer plaque, are one of the four extant hominid genera.]]

### Klasifikimi 
parapamje|Skulls of an orangutan and a gorilla

* **Family Hominidae**: humans and other great apes; extinct genera and species excluded
** Subfamily Ponginae
*** Genus *Pongo*
**** Bornean orangutan, *Pongo pygmaeus*
***** *Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus*
***** *Pongo pygmaeus morio*
***** *Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii*
**** Sumatran orangutan, *Pongo abelii*
** Subfamily Homininae
*** Tribe Gorillini
**** Genus *Gorilla*
***** Western gorilla, *Gorilla gorilla*
****** Western lowland gorilla, *Gorilla gorilla gorilla*
****** Cross River gorilla, *Gorilla gorilla diehli*
***** Eastern gorilla, *Gorilla beringei*
****** Mountain gorilla, *Gorilla beringei beringei*
****** Eastern lowland gorilla, *Gorilla beringei graueri*
*** Tribe Hominini
**** Genus *Pan*
***** Common chimpanzee, *Pan troglodytes*
****** Central chimpanzee, *Pan troglodytes troglodytes*
****** West African chimpanzee, *Pan troglodytes verus*
****** Nigerian chimpanzee, *Pan troglodytes ellioti*
****** Eastern chimpanzee, *Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii*
***** Bonobo (pygmy chimpanzee), *Pan paniscus*
**** Genus *Homo*
***** Human, *Homo sapiens sapiens*.

*Subfamily Ponginae (or Pongidae)
***Gigantopithecus*†
***Sivapithecus*†
***Lufengpithecus*†
***Ankarapithecus*†
***Ouranopithecus*†
*Subfamily Homininae (or Hominidae)
***Homo* – immediate ancestors of modern humans
****Homo habilis*†
****Homo rudolfensis*†
****Homo ergaster*†
****Homo georgicus*†
****Homo erectus*†
****Homo cepranensis*†
****Homo antecessor*†
****Homo heidelbergensis*†
****Homo rhodesiensis*†
****Homo neanderthalensis*†
****Homo sapiens*
*****Homo sapiens idaltu*†
*****Archaic Homo sapiens* (Cro-magnon)†
****Homo floresiensis*†
***Oreopithecus*†(hominid status disputed)
***Paranthropus*†
***Australopithecus*†
***Sahelanthropus*†(hominid status highly problematic)
***Orrorin*†
***Ardipithecus*†
***Kenyanthropus*†

## Shih edhe 
* Great ape language
** *The Mind of an Ape*
*Primate cognition
* List of apes – notable individual apes
* Ape extinction
** Great Apes Survival Project
** Kinshasa Declaration on Great Apes
* Homininae
* Human evolution
** Timeline of human evolution

## Lidhje te jashtme 
*Renderings of Hominid Exemplars at the Smithsonian 
*Additional information on great apes 
*NPR News: Toumaï the Human Ancestor
*Hominid Species at TalkOrigins Archive
*For more details on Hominid species, including excellent photos of fossil hominids
*New Scientist 19 May 2003 – Chimps are human, gene study implies 
*Scientific American Magazine (April 2006 Issue) Why Are Some Animals So Smart?
*A new mediterranean hominoid-hominid link discovered, *Anoiapithecus brevirostris*, "Lluc": A unique Middle Miocene European hominoid and the origins of the great ape and human clade  Link to graphical reconstruction

## Notes 
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