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hominin
[ hom-uh-nin ]
noun
, Anthropology, Zoology.
- any member of the group consisting of all modern and extinct humans and their immediate ancestors, specifically members of the tribe Hominini.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hominin1
First recorded in 1985–90; from New Latin Hominīnī, equivalent to Latin homin- (stem of homō ) “human being, man” + -īnī (plural of the adjective suffix -īnus indicating origin or affiliation); Homo ( def ), -ine 1( def ) )
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Example Sentences
Ancient humans and their hominin ancestors really didn’t have much of a problem with cavities.
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In the last few hundred thousand years, multiple species of hominins existed and interbred with each other.
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You’d see all these different kinds of hominins coexisting on a landscape, eating slightly different things, moving in slightly different ways.
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These hominins were living in environments that had fewer and fewer trees.
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To me, the greatest revelation of your research is we didn’t evolve from hominins that walked on all fours.
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