Hominim
| Hominini Temporal range: 6–0 Ma |
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| A human (Homo sapiens) and a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
| Family: | Hominidae |
| Subfamily: | Homininae |
| Tribe: |
Hominini Gray, 1824 |
| Type species | |
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Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1756 |
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| Genera | |
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?†Sahelanthropus |
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?†Sahelanthropus
?†Orrorin
?†Graecopithecus
(? =more field data needed)
(† =extinct =fossil)
The Hominini ("hominins") form a taxonomic tribe of the subfamily Homininae ("hominines"). Hominini includes genus Homo (humans), but excludes genus Gorilla (gorillas). There is at present (as of 2017[update]) no consensus on whether it should include genus Pan (the chimpanzees), the question being closely tied to the complex speciation process connecting humans and chimpanzees and the development of bipedalism in proto-humans.
The tribe was originally introduced by Gray (1824), long before any details on the speciation of Pan and Homo were known. Gray's tribe Hominini by definition includes both Pan and Homo. This definition is still adhered to in the proposal by Mann and Weiss (1996), which divides Hominini into three subtribes, Panina (containing Pan), Hominina ("homininans", containing Homo "humans"), and Australopithecina (containing several extinct "australopithecine" genera).
Alternatively, Hominini is taken to exclude Pan. In this case, Panini ("panins", Delson 1977) may be used to refer to the tribe containing Pan as its only genus.
Minority dissenting views include Gorilla in Hominini and Pan in Homo (Goodman et al. 1998), or both Pan and Gorilla in Homo (Watson et al. 2001).
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