This is my homework and it is due tomorrow and i have to fill out a Venn diagram.
I have to compare and contrast. Please help mee!!!
And if you can give me something they have in common, it would be great!
Hominids are pretty much any human like creature from long ago, while Homo Sapiens are the ancestors of modern humans. Australopithecines, Homo Habilis, Neanderthals, and Homo Erectus were all hominids, but we aren't descended from them.
There's quite a few ways to answer this, cos the 'definition' changed over the years to include or discount certain species. For myself, I use the term as to mean The First Upright Humanoid Creatures that evolved and two of them later became fully Human, namely the Neanderthals and Cro-Magnum, later to evolve into Homo Sapiens.
Here's the Wiki-paste I liked the best. It contains less red herrings:
The classification of the great apes has been revised several times in the last few decades. These various revisions have led to a varied use of the word "hominid" – the original meaning of Hominidae referred only to the modern meaning of Hominina, i.e. only humans and their closest relatives. The meaning of the taxon changed gradually, leading to the modern meaning of "hominid", which includes all great apes and humans.
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The primatological term hominid is easily confused with a number of very similar words:
A hominoid, commonly called an ape, is a member of the superfamily Hominoidea: extant members are the lesser apes (gibbons) and great apes (hominids).
A hominine is a member of the subfamily Homininae: gorillas, chimpanzees, humans (excludes orangutans).
A hominin is a member of the tribe Hominini: bonobos, chimpanzees and humans.
A hominan is a member of the sub-tribe Hominina: modern humans and their extinct relatives.
A human is a member of the genus Homo, of which Homo sapiens is the only extant species, and within that Homo sapiens sapiens is the only surviving subspecies.
Many scientists, including anthropologists, continue to use the term hominid to mean humans and their direct and near-direct bipedal ancestors.
As mentioned, Hominidae was originally the name given to humans and their extinct relatives, with the other great apes being placed in a separate family, the Pongidae. However, that definition made Pongidae paraphyletic because at least one great ape species appears to be more closely related to humans than to other great apes. Most taxonomists nowadays encourage monophyletic groups – this would require the use of Pongidae to be restricted to one of the great ape groups (containing Pongo, the orangutans) only. Thus many biologists consider Hominidae to include Pongidae as the subfamily Ponginae, or restrict the latter to the orangutans and their extinct relatives like Gigantopithecus. The taxonomy shown here follows the monophyletic groupings according to the two theories of human and great ape relationships.
Especially close human relatives form a subfamily, the Homininae. A few researchers go so far as to include chimpanzees and gorillas in the genus Homo along with humans. Alternatively, those fossil relatives that are more closely related to humans than the nearest living great ape species represent members of Hominidae without necessarily assigning subfamily or tribal categories. If the orangutan is the closest living relative of humans, there would be a sister group relationship between Hominidae and Pongidae, with the African apes comprising a separate family (Panidae) according to the morphological evidence