What is difference between hominids and hominoids and similar?
To begin with the hominid classification contains the human and great apes. (chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans) Hominids include all of the ape and human families. As one source explains: “The word “hominid” refers to members of the family of humans, Hominidae, which consists of all species on our side of the last common ancestor of humans and living apes. (Some scientists use a broader definition of Hominidae which includes the great apes.) Hominids are included in the superfamily of all apes, the Hominoidea, the members of which are called hominoids. Although the hominid fossil record is far from complete, and the evidence is often fragmentary, there is enough to give a good outline of the evolutionary history of humans.” http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/spe… The split from the rest of the hominoids is dated to 15-20 million years ago. The first known hominid is Ardipithecus ramidus. The basic characte
