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Hominidae

"Hominidae" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Family of the suborder HAPLORHINI (Anthropoidea) comprising bipedal primate MAMMALS. It includes modern man (HOMO SAPIENS) and the great apes: gorillas (GORILLA GORILLA), chimpanzees (PAN PANISCUS and PAN TROGLODYTES), and orangutans (PONGO PYGMAEUS).


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Hominidae" by people in this website by year, and whether "Hominidae" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 90 publications over 28 distinct years, with a maximum of 11 publications in 2015
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