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Human Animals?

SalixIncendium

अहं ब्रह्मास्मि
Staff member
Premium Member
Ape is not a scientific taxonomic definition. The family classification Hominidae, groups humans, chimps, gorillas and orangutans and possibly Yeti/Sasquatch/etc together, some call these the 'Great Apes', as opposed to the Lesser Ape, the gibbon.
What about dragons? Or are they a different taxonomical classification? ;)
 

The Hammer

Skald
Premium Member
Ape is not a scientific taxonomic definition. The family classification Hominidae, groups humans, chimps, gorillas and orangutans and possibly Yeti/Sasquatch/etc together, some call these the 'Great Apes', as opposed to the Lesser Ape, the gibbon.

Correct. This person just seems hung up on the non existent classification of Ape.
 

It Aint Necessarily So

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Ape is not a scientific taxonomic definition.
FYI (you might find a different classification schema and nomenclature elsewhere, especially if more than a few years old):

The Hominoidea are the ape superfamily, or hominoids. Remove the lesser apes (gibbons and siamangs) and what remains is the family of great apes, the Hominidae, or hominids. Remove the pongids (subfamily Ponginae, or orangutans) and what remains is the subfamily Homininae (hominines) - the gorillas, chimps, bonobos and man. Remove tribe Gorillini and what remains is tribe Hominini (hominans?), then separate these into the subtribe Panina (chimps and bonomos) and the subtribe Hominina (or hominins = austrlopithecoids and genus Homo).

Here it is graphically:

Superfamily HOMINOIDEA ("hominoids") the apes -> lesser apes (Family HYLOBATIDAE) Gibbons and siamangs

Family HOMINIDAE ("hominids") great apes -> (Subfamily PONGINAE) Orangutans

Subfamily HOMININAE ("hominines") Gorilla, Pan and Homo -> Tribe GORILLINI

Tribe HOMININI ("hominans?") Pan (chimps, bonobos) and Homo -> Subtribe PANINA

Subtribe HOMININA ("hominins") Homo and Australopithecoids -> Austrlopithecoids (Australopithecus, Ardipithicus, Paranthropus)

Genus Homo
 

Quintessence

Consults with Trees
Staff member
Premium Member
The internet is remarkably quiet on the subject. Now of course anyone monitoring my web searches, is going to wonder if I've finally cracked.
You're just searching the wrong internet. Layperson search engines are garbage for doing any real research. There's an entire field dedicated to the study of crap - scatology. Go to a university library website, then start searching the databases of peer reviewed research (bonus points for getting help from the collections specialists who can assist you in optimizing your search terms and using the correct databases). You will find things. So.... so many things.

Wait... why are we talking about this?
 

SalixIncendium

अहं ब्रह्मास्मि
Staff member
Premium Member
Go back to post #42, I did ask that question.
No. You asked if I would consider you evil. You understand the difference between doing something wrong or not okay to being evil, yes?
 

Little Dragon

Well-Known Member
You're just searching the wrong internet. Layperson search engines are garbage for doing any real research. There's an entire field dedicated to the study of crap - scatology.
I tried searching that term first and some very unsavory suggestions arrived in the results page, I have since disinfected my eyeballs with ACME sulfuric acid.
 
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