| 释义 |
hominine, a. and n.|ˈhɒmɪnaɪn, -iːn|
[f. L. homin-em man + -ine. Cf. asinine.]
A. adj.
1. Of or belonging to man zoologically; of the human species.
1883American V. 204 If the footprints are really those of a hominine species. Ibid. 267 The most distinctively simian, and consequently least hominine, characteristic.
2. Of, belonging to, or characteristic of a hominine or Homininæ.
1959Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quant. Biol. XXIV. 244/1 The earlier forms are the more hominine... This suggests the probability that the known Australopithecines represent a somewhat specialized offshoot from the mainline of hominine evolution.
B. n. [f. mod.L. Homininæ (G. Heberer 1949, in Die Umschau 1 May 258/1), the sub-family including man.] A member of the sub-family Homininæ, which is sometimes used as a division of the family Hominidæ to comprise large-brained hominids, in contrast to the small-brained ones of the sub-family Australopithecinæ.
1961K. P. Oakley in Times 5 Sept. 13/5 Three main points of emergence in man's evolution—the first tool⁓makers, the first hominines, and the first men of our own species. 1963G. G. Simpson in S. L. Washburn Classification & Human Evol. (1964) i. 29 In the Hominidae, I see no sufficient reason for having two subfamilies, especially as each has only one known genus as I and, I believe, most others now define the genera. ‘Australopithecine’ and ‘hominine’ may still be used as strictly vernacular terms for structural level. 1971Nature 6 Aug. 383/1 The bones throw some light on the structure and function of the lower limb skeleton of Middle Pleistocene hominines in East Africa. |