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Hominine vs Hominin - What's the difference?

hominine | hominin |

As nouns the difference between hominine and hominin

is that hominine is any member of the subfamily Homininae while hominin is any member of the taxonomic tribe Hominini, the evolutionary group that includes modern humans and now-extinct bipedal relatives.

As an adjective hominine

is of or relating to the Homininae, a subfamily of Hominidae that includes humans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and some extinct relatives.

hominine

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or relating to the Homininae, a subfamily of Hominidae that includes humans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and some extinct relatives.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any member of the subfamily Homininae

    • hominin

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (palaeontology) Any member of the taxonomic tribe Hominini , the evolutionary group that includes modern humans and now-extinct bipedal relatives.
  • * 2009 , The Human Lineage , page 432:
    • [...] 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.
  • *2011 , (Chris Stringer), The Origin of Our Species , Penguin 2012, p. 151:
  • *: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.