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The "Hominidae" , also known as "great apes", or "hominids", form a taxonomic family of primates, including four extant genera: orangutans with two species extant; gorillas with two species; chimpanzees with two species; and humans with one species. Several revisions over time in classifying the great apes have caused a varied use of the word "hominid". Its original meaning referred only to humans and their closest relatives; that restrictive meaning now is largely assumed by the term "hominin", which comprises all members of the human clade "after" the split from the chimpanzees. The modern meaning of "hominid" refers to all the great apes including humans. However, usage still varies, and some scientists and laypersons may still use the term in the traditional, more restrictive, meaning; the scholarly literature generally will show the traditional usage until around the turn of the 21st century. Within the taxon Hominidae, a number of extant and known extinct, that is, fossil, genera are grouped with the humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas in the subfamily Homininae; others with orangutans in the subfamily Ponginae . The most recent common ancestor of all Hominidae lived roughly 14 million years ago, when the ancestors of the orangutans speciated from the ancestral line of the other three genera. Those ancestors of the Hominidae family had already speciated from the Hylobatidae family , perhaps 15 million to 20 million years ago. In the early Miocene, about 22 million years ago, there were many kinds of arboreally adapted primitive catarrhines from East Africa; the variety suggests a long history of prior diversification. Fossils at 20 million years ago include fragments attributed to "Victoriapithecus", the earliest Old World Monkey. Among the genera thought to be in the ape lineage leading up to 13 million years ago are "Proconsul", "Rangwapithecus", "Dendropithecus", "Limnopithecus", "Nacholapithecus", "Equatorius", "Nyanzapithecus", "Afropithecus", "Heliopithecus", and "Kenyapithecus", all from East Africa. Wiz Science™ is "the" learning channel for children and all ages. SUBSCRIBE TODAY Disclaimer: This video is for your information only. The author or publisher does not guarantee the accuracy of the content presented in this video. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. Background Music: "The Place Inside" by Silent Partner (royalty-free) from YouTube Audio Library. This video uses material/images from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominidae, which is released under Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ . This video is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ . To reuse/adapt the content in your own work, you must comply with the license terms.