how many different species of hominoid?

Question

how many pre homo sapien sapiens were there? i realize there technically is no end to such a list, but just go back until a few before the first hominoid or farther if your feeling spiffy.

Answer 1

The term hominoid generally now encompasses all great apes and humans as well as all of the fossil bipeds and some fossil apes as well. Since the homo "sapiens" defines the species there was only one species but there are lots of disputes. Some call Neanderthals Homo sapiens neanderthalensis but most place them as a separate species. Homo Heidelbergensis suffers a similar fate sometimes being classified as a separate species and sometimes not. Homo erectus should probably be broken into multiple species though exactly where is arbitrary. There are Homo habilis, homo floresiensis (the hobbit), homo erectus meganthropus (sometimes categorized as different species). There is Homo ergaster sometimes categorized with erectus. I could go on and on but since you asked how many species of hominoid, given the definition I provided above, I would think the number would be around 50 (22 apes, 5 astralopithecines, 3 paranthropus, 10 species in the genus homo, and certainly some unknown ones as well).

Answer 2

The history of homonoid is very limited simply because there is only so far back that you can go.. How many species that have died out or was killed off, No one really knows. Also so many theories about hominoid are just pure guess work. I am sorry to say this but That part of history will never be known by mankind. You also have to remember that hominid have always been on the most hunted list and they still are, They are not very fast and their ability to fight back is limited when you are dealing with one or two individuals back in those times. And the other animals that hunted them were plentiful in those days, also you have to remember that they did not bury their dead at that time so the scavengers made short work of their bodies and bones etc. So no matter what anyone might say about the homniod species it all based on pure speculation.................

Answer 3

Ok to break up hominid evolution:
Begining w/ Homo habilis and the succesive Homo species these are all in the direct ancestral line of modern humans.
Homo habilis 2.4-1.6 million years agoa
Home erectus 1.8 mya from the neck down this was essentially a mod. human. 1st hominid to leave Africa.
Homo sapien neanderthalensis about 30,000 years ago To answer a comment made earlier, neanderthals buried their dead in ritual ceremonies(proven fact Shanidar)
Anatomically modern Homo sapiens about 40,00 ya
These are just the basics

Answer 4

At least 16, at least when I took Evolutionary History a few years ago. This was before H. floriensis was made 'official'. Different anthropologists will argue over some of the species with fewer examples, but there's a good list on the talkorigins webpage I'm linking.

Answer 5

pes are the members of the Hominoidea superfamily of primates, which includes humans. Under current classification, there are two families of hominoids:

* the family Hylobatidae consists of 4 genera and 12 species of gibbons, including the Lar Gibbon and the Siamang, collectively known as the "lesser apes"
* the family Hominidae consisting of gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans, and humans,[1][2] collectively known as the "great apes".

A few other primates have the word "ape" in their common names, but they are not regarded as true apes by most authorities.

Except for gorillas and humans, all true apes are agile climbers of trees. They are best described as omnivorous, their diet consisting of fruit, grass seeds, and in most cases some quantities of meat and invertebrates—either hunted or scavenged—along with anything else available and easily digested. They are native to Africa and Asia, although humans have spread to all parts of the world.

Most ape species are rare or endangered. The chief threat to most of the endangered species is loss of tropical rainforest habitat, though some populations are further imperiled by hunting for bushmeat.

Answer 6

I am going to guess there were between 10 to 15 branches to the tree.