As technologies and methods advance, genetics plays an ever-increasing role, in particular to examine and compare DNA structure as a vital tool of research of the evolutionary kinship lines of related species and genera.

Etymology

The term paleoanthropology derives from Greek palaiós (???????) "old, ancient", ánthropos (????????) "man, human" and the suffix -logía (-?????) "study of".

Hominoid taxonomies

Hominoids are a primate superfamily, the hominid family is currently

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