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What do physical anthropologists call the taxonomic group that includes humans and humanlike ancestors, excluding living nonhuman primates?

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Hominidae is the taxonomic group that anthropologist called. It includes human and humanlike ancestors, excluding living non-human primates.
Hominidae includes only humans and their extinct relative, and the great apes were placed in a different family. Their share complex cognitive marks, for example, they know how to recognize themselves in mirrors it is the ability if self-awareness.
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