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	Hominidae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Originally, the group was restricted to humans and their extinct relatives, with the other great apes being placed in a separate family, the Pongidae.
		However, that definition makes Pongidae paraphyletic, whereas most taxonomists nowadays encourage monophyletic groups.
		Thus many biologists consider Hominidae to include the Pongidae as the subfamily Ponginae, or restrict the latter to the orangutan and extinct relatives like Gigantopithecus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pongidae (577 words)

	pongidae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Hominids (Hominidae) are a biological family which includes humans, extinct species of humanlike creatures and now often the great apes: chimpanzees and bonobos (genus Pan), gorillas, and orangutans (genus Pongo)).
		Originally the group was restricted to humans and their extinct relatives, with great apes being placed in a separate family, the Pongidae.
		However, the Pongidae are paraphyletic, whereas most taxonomists nowadays encourage monophyletic groups.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Pongidae.html (524 words)

	GrungyApe - Primate Classification
		The family most closely related to the Hominidae today is the Pongidae, the anthropoid apes including the gorilla, the chimpanzee, and the orangutan.
		The physical characteristics that distinguish hominids from the pongids are erect posture, bipedal locomotion, rounded skulls with larger brains, small teeth (including unspecialized canines), and such behavioral characteristics as communication through language.
		However, other evidence claims the members of these two families Hominidae and Pongidae are too closely related to be split and that Hominidae should and does contain Humans, Gorillas, Chimpanzees, and Orangutans.
	www.grungyape.com /old/classification2.html (382 words)

	Catarrhini - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Some count the orangutan as its own family, called Pongidae.
		Older authors described humans and their most close extinct relatives/ancestors as family on its own and placed the great apes in the family Pongidae.
		The other haplorhines are the prosimian tarsiers, which were formerly classified as strepsirhines, and the Platyrrhini (New World monkeys), which live in South America.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Catarrhini (229 words)

	Ape (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Its earliest meaning was a tailless (and therefore exceptionally human-like) non-human primate, but as zoological knowledge developed it became clear that taillessness occurred in a number of different and otherwise unrelated species.
		Modern scientific usage includes as apes the families Hylobatidae (6 species of gibbons and the siamang), which are known as lesser apes, and the family Pongidae or great apes, consisting of Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla), Chimpanzees (common chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes and bonobos, Pan paniscus), humans (Homo sapiens), and Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus).
		Some authors adopt the alternative of including the great apes in the family Hominidae, which is the grouping for humans and their extinct ape-like ancestors, while others use a subfamily to separate the hominids from the extant non-human apes.
	usapedia.com /a/ape.html (596 words)

	Review Question 10-7 Help (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The reason the name, Hominidae, is preferred over Pongidae for the combined group name is more esoteric, having to do with provisions of the formal zoological taxonomic code.
		The technical reason is that Hominidae was proposed earlier than the name Pongidae, so it has taxonomic priority, and Pongidae is rejected as a "junior synonym" (this is not important to study).
		The parallel example given in class was "Reptilia" and "Aves" (birds) being accorded the same class rank in a conventional classification, recognizing the different "adaptive zone" that birds have moved into, relative to their reptilian ancestors.
	biology.fullerton.edu /biol261/ch/rq_help/rq_10_7.html (589 words)

	Ape List
		The closest relatives of men (homo sapiens sapiens) alive are the Hylobatidae (lesser apes) and the Pongidae (great apes).
		The Hylobatidae consist of gibbons and siamangs, the members of the Pongidae are Chimpanzeess (Pan troglodytes), bonobo (Pan paniscus), gorillas (Gorilla gorilla), orang utans (Pongo pygmaeus) and the humans (homo sapiens sapiens).
		Hylobatidae and Pongidae constitute the superfamily of Hominoidea.
	wkprc.eva.mpg.de /english/files/steckbriefe.htm (139 words)

	To: All Msg #67, Sep3093 08:12AM Subject: Re: Man's origins (was: re: A friendly Challenge
		I was evidently mistaken: orangutangs are in Pongidae.
		This means that pongidae is not monophyletic, which suggests to me that our current taxononmic terminology is a hang over from times when humans were thought to be so exceptionally unique that they should rate their own family.
		Now consider the evolutionary tree, given that it is now accepted that orangutangs split from humans/chimps/gorrillas before that part of the bush diverged into the modern species.
	www.skepticfiles.org /evolut/pongidev.htm (315 words)

	SHF - Pongidae Tuesday
		Srichaphan is not the worst grass player around but if you're asking do I think Hilton has a chance to win at those long odds of +25 or better I would guess probably not.
		I played 10 ladies plays which are all over the place today...
		The lack of play and depending on the injury could see her make an early exit if she's fit for Wimbledon.
	sportshandicappingforum.com /showthread.php?t=48621 (561 words)

	MavicaNET - Great Apes (Pongidae) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The family Pongidae, generally referred to as the "great apes" contains three genuses, Pongo.
		Andrews and Cronin (1982) suggested an alternative classification by which the living Pongidae would be restricted to Pongo and the Hominidae would comprise two subfamilies: Gorillinae, with Pan and Gorilla; and Homininae, with Homo (and the fossil Australopithecus).
		The exact numbers of lowland gorillas are not known, but estimates of the western lowland gorilla place it at around 111,000.
	www.mavicanet.com /lite/est/21749.html (438 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Pongidae - the Great Apes Family
		In the classification of living things, Pongidae is the family of animals that are our closest relatives in the animal kingdom.
		The members of that family, which are called Pongids, are the gorillas (Gorilla gorilla), the common chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), the bonobos (Pan paniscus), and the orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus).
		The bonobo chimps are known for their particularly licentious sexual behavior, as well as their exceptional intelligence.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A918399 (398 words)

	THE ORIGIN OF MAN
		These not-yet hominized hominids are the direct somatic ancestors of man. Since paleontology does not yet possess enough fossil remains, it cannot describe with satisfactory precision either the ways in which the hominids proliferated or the precise point of hominization.
		But their premolars are exactly of the human type and completely distinct from those of the Pongidae.
		On the other hand, they have an elongated and shallow brain: a cranial volume of 500 to 700 cc., notably inferior to that of later men but high in relation to the Pongidae and relative to their stature.
	www.zubiri.org /works/origman.htm (10270 words)

	Hominidae - EvoWiki
		While some scientists claim that it is merely the skull of a female gorilla, others have called it the most important hominid fossil since Australopithecus.
		Some of the details of the classification of primates is disputed, and some still classify the great apes in Pongidae.
		Other classify orangutans in Pongidae and other apes in Hominidae.
	wiki.cotch.net /index.php/Hominidae (608 words)

	Thomas Geissmann's Gibbon Research Lab.: Die Gibbons (Hylobatidae): Eine Einführung (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is often used to represent a group consisting of the African apes and the orang-utans, but excluding humans.
		These apes have traditionally been united in the family "Pongidae".
		If we wanted to remove any of the living apes from this family, the first alternative would consist in putting orang-outans - and orang-utans only - in their own family "Pongidae".
	www.tiho-hannover.de /gibbons/main/introduction/chapter_english01.html (1172 words)

	ZenWork.com - Web Graphic Designer Portfolio
		This is because of their resemblance such as binocular vision, grasping hands, having a thumb, stand and walk fully erect, relatively flat face and ears placed on either side of the head.
		It is known that the DNA structure of an Ape (Pongidae) is 95% to 98% similar to a Human DNA.
		They are large red-haired Ape (Pongidae), that can be found roaming in the hot and wet rainforest of Borneo, and Indonesia Island of Sumatra.
	www.zenwork.com (2596 words)

	Re: Please help me with my project on Orangutans
		Superfamily: Hominoidea Family: Pongidae Genus: Pongo Species: Pongo pygmaeus You ask what these terms mean.
		The superfamily Hominoidea means "of the humans" The family Pongidae means "of the apes" The genus Pongo means "ape" (this word is from the Congolese language) The species Pongo pygmaeus would traslate to "ape little man." This translation would suggest that orangutans were human.
		Most scientists today would not use the family Pongidae, instead they use Hominidae, which suggests a closer relationship between apes and humans.
	www.madsci.org /posts/archives/apr99/923692816.Zo.r.html (178 words)

	On Neanderthal vs. Paranthropus
		Normally, in the animal kingdom such vast and varied geographic distribution of a taxon would have led to adaptive radiation into a great many species, but this apparently was not the case with the Hominidae.
		Paradoxically, they seem to be genetically a more closely knit family, especially in the late stages of development, than the Pongidae.
		And isn't it possible that by confronting one mystery with the other we shall be able, like detectives, to unravel them both.
	www.rfthomas.clara.net /papers/paran.html (7096 words)

	sodaplaycentral - featured model (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Pongidae is a very impressive walker by spartan that demonstrates both mechanical and aesthetic prowess.
		Pongidae is the name of the family of animals commonly known as the "great apes." It's an apt name for this model; the movement is very ape-like.
		The intricate and intelligent mechanism used in this model is reminiscent of some of lonelyswedish's work.
	www.sodaplaycentral.com /showmodel.php?modelid=7 (234 words)

	Primate Evolution/Evolution of Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Family Pongidae: great apes, include oragutangs, chimpanzees and gorillas
		Ramapithecus is thought to ba a common ancestor for both the hominids and the pongidae (great apes).
		Hominids: Scientists map the proteins of different organisms to determine how different or alike these organisms are from one another.
	www.odu.edu /webroot/instr/sci/tmmathew.nsf/pages/primates (677 words)

	#uhf.priv @ QuakeNet stats by martbhell
		"Pongidae: va fan jag är ju lika gammal som dotter din =)..
		Mary Poppins's faithful follower, Pongidae, didn't speak so much: 25381 words.
		Another lonely one was Pongidae, who managed to hit 78 times.
	www.shell.linux.se /lucifer/irc (653 words)

	ZOO
		A male chimp can weigh from 56-80 kg and a female can weigh from 45-68 kg.
		As with all members of Pongidae, chimpanzees have a brain that closely resembles humans.
		This species is renowned for its manufacture and utilization of tools.
	www.knoxville-zoo.org /chimps.htm (202 words)

	Search Results for pongidae - Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hominidae are distinguished from Pongidae (anthropoid apes) by evolutionary trends that illustrate the adaptations of each for different environmental situations.
		Expand your search on pongidae with these databases:
		Research organization dedicated to the study of this African species of great ape (family Pongidae).
	www.britannica.com /search?query=pongidae&submit=Find&source=MWTAB (304 words)

	NLM Technical Bulletin, November-December 2004, 2005 MeSH Changes to Hominidae and the Check Tag Human; Resulting ...
		The descriptor for the family PONGIDAE will be deleted because it is considered obsolete.
		Pongidae will be retained as an entry term on HOMINIDAE.
		The check tag HUMAN will be changed to a new descriptor HUMANS.
	www.nlm.nih.gov /pubs/techbull/nd04/nd04_human.html (907 words)

	Energy Citations Database (ECD) - Energy and Energy-Related Bibliographic Citations
		Energy Citations Database (ECD) Document #7176528 - Orosomucoid typing of apes (family Pongidae) by isoelectric focusing: Among primates do only humans have two functional orosomucoid loci
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		Orosomucoid typing of apes (family Pongidae) by isoelectric focusing: Among primates do only humans have two functional orosomucoid loci
	www.osti.gov /energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=7176528 (140 words)

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