hominin

Etymology

From translingual Hominini, from the stem of Latin homo (“man”). Compare hominid.

noun

1. (paleontology) Any member of the taxonomic tribe Hominini, the evolutionary group that includes modern humans and now-extinct bipedal relatives.
   … prefer the third explanation for the advanced-looking features of Neandertals (Chapter 7) and the Ngandong hominins (Chapter 6), but they have had little to say about the post-Erectine archaics from China. 2009, The Human Lineage, page 432
   Caspari and Lee carried out comparisons ranging from ancient hominins such as australopithecines through to Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons, assessing the ratios of young adults to old adults. 2011, Chris Stringer, The Origin of Our Species, Penguin, published 2012, page 151
   This means that, in addition to democracy and gorillas, we must now credit Greece with being the cradle of the hominins - of which we humans are the only living representatives. 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 119