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Hominids are Bi-pedal organisms like us. Bi pedal means an animal can use 1 2 3 or 4 legs to move without having to move the other legs.

Some of our closest relatives which are also Bi-pedal organisms are monkeys, lemurs, chimpanzees and even apes! We have similar bone structure such as the arms legs and torso. It is interesting because lemurs and monkeys have tails but humans and apes don't. Why is that? When the new species evolved the lemurs and monkeys found it easier to balance with tails so after tons of years the tail was formed.

Humans are seperate from other primates because we have the use of bipedalism, a trait that accompanies hominids and others such as walking in an upright positionon 2 feet. Gorrilas, apes, monkeys lemurs chimpanzees, etc. All are in the hominid family because they all can walk on 2 feet without any trouble or pains.

The very first primates were very small mouse like creatures that you could hardly imagine turned into the current human over millions of years. 45 million years ago primates began to develop a more advanced and larger brain and they began to obtain traits and looks similar to modern day apes, monkeys and humans. Scientists have found evidence that supports that our closest living relative is the chimpanzee, a kind of ape. Imbetween 6 and 30 million years ago apes including chimpanzees began to evolve differently. Our brains became larger and more advanced while theirs stayed the same and their appearence changed slightly.

There were at least 18 different types of hominids over the years. Some of the earliest hominids had some very human like traits and qualities. One of these traits was the ability to walk in an upright position, another was smaller teeth, flatter faces with less protruding foreheads and larger brains. Most of thee hominid fossils were found in Africa, this is evidence that hominids evolved in Africa.

lots of the earlier Hominid groups were called australopithecines. Some from this group had very similar traits that are shared with apes. These creatures had larger brains than apes and had stone tools.

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