Definition of "hominin" [hominin]

• Any member of the tribe Hominini, the evolutionary group that includes modern humans and now-extinct bipedal relatives. (noun)

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• "This is scarcely a sigh on the scale of long-term hominin evolution, some six million years of transformation that is the main concern of the impressive David H. Koch H.ll of H.man Origins, which opened this week at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural H.story."
• "Re “A hominin is a member of the tribe Hominini,…”"
• "A hominin is a member of the tribe Hominini, a hominine is a member of the subfamily Homininae, a hominid is a member of the family Hominidae, and a hominoid is a member of the superfamily Hominoidea."