[ **up: [[Animals]] | [[Mammals]] | [[Primates]] | [[Catarrhini (Parvorder)]]** ] --- # Hominids | Hominidae (Family) > ‘**Hominid** – the group consisting of all modern and extinct Great Apes (that is, modern humans, chimpanzees, gorillas and orang-utans plus all their immediate ancestors).’[^1] > Numerous revisions in classifying the great apes have caused the use of the term *hominid* to change over time. The original meaning of “hominid” referred only to humans (*Homo*) and their closest extinct relatives. However, by the 1990s humans and other apes were considered to be “hominids”.[^2] - *See also*: [[Hominin]] --- ## Taxonomy - **[[Life (Biology)]]** - **[[Eukaryotes|Eukaryota (Domain)]]** - **[[Animals|Animalia (Kingdom)]]** - [[Chordates|Chordata (Phylum)]] - [[Mammals|Mammalia (Class)]] - [[Therians|Theria (Subclass)]] - [[Placentals|Eutheria (Infraclass)]] - [[Primates|Primate (Order)]] - [[Catarrhini (Parvorder)]] - [[Hominids|Hominidae (Family)]] [^1]: Beth Blaxland, ‘Hominid and hominin – what’s the difference?’, *Australian Museum*, updated 2 October 2020, https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/hominid-and-hominin-whats-the-difference/. [^2]: ‘Hominidae’, *Wikipedia*, 19 March 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominidae.