Apes include a rather broad range of simians (higher primates) from the Old World. Generally, if it’s not a monkey, people ...

Humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and their extinct ancestors form a family of organisms known as the Hominidae. Researchers generally agree that among the living animals in this group ...

At the most basic level, human evolution is articulated through classifications of, and evolutionary relationships among, hominin species. This article presents a basic taxonomy and phylogeny of ...

Under this system, the term hominid refers to members of the Hominidae family (in taxonomy, names that end in -idae refer to a family). But in the past few decades, ...

Chimpanzees are, in fact, part of the Hominidae family, a group that includes gorillas, orangutans, and us humans. This distinction is important. Unlike their primate cousins, the monkeys, chimpanzees ...