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Hominini is the Tribe of Homininae that only includes Humans (''Homo''), Chimpanzee s (''Pan''), and their Extinct ancestors. Members of the tribe are called '''hominins''' (cf. Hominid s). The creation of this taxon is the result of the current idea that the least similar species of a Trichotomy should be separated from the other two. Through DNA comparison, scientists believe they have determined that the ''Pan/Homo'' split happened about 5 to 7 million years ago. It is interesting to note that no fossil species on the ''Pan'' side of the split have been determined; all of the extinct genera listed to the right are ancestral to ''Homo'', or are offshoots of such. However, both '' Orrorin '' and '' Sahelanthropus '' existed around the time of the split, and so may be ancestral to both humans and chimpanzees. In the proposal of Mann and Weiss (1996), the tribe ''Hominini'' includes ''Pan'' as well as ''Homo'' as separate subtribes. ''Homo'' (and, by inference, all bipedal apes) is by itself only in the subtribe Hominina , while ''Pan'' is in the Paninina subtribe. Hominoid family tree]] SEE ALSO REFERENCES |