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Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Chordata, Class Mammalia, Order Primates, Family Hominidae

Contains Genera :

 Genus Pongo? (baboon?s)
 Genus Gigantopithecus? - extinct
 Genus Pan (chimpanzee?s)
 Genus Gorilla? (gorilla?s)
 Subfamily Homininae
  Genus Orrorin - extinct 
  Genus Ardipithecus - extinct
  Genus Kenyanthropus - extinct
  Genus Australopithecus - extinct
  Genus Paranthropus - extinct
  Genus Homo (humans)

Traditionally the forms outside of the Homininae have been placed in a separate group, the Pongidae. This turns out to be paraphyletic?, so should probably either been abandoned or occasionally restricted to Pongo?+Gigantopithecus?.


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