Hominoidea


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Hom·i·noi·de·a

(hom'i-noy'dē-ă),
A superfamily of the Primates including the anthropoid apes and humans. Divided into the families Pongidae (anthropoid apes) and Hominidae (humans).
[L. homo (homin-), man, + G. eidos, form]
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Blanquer-Maumont y Crouau-Roy (1995) mostraron que tres micro-satelites localizados en el cromosoma humano 6p estan conservados en diferentes especies de dos superfamilias de Primates, los Hominoidea y los Cercopithecoidea.
Relaciones filogeneticas entre generos de ciervos neotropicales (Artiodactyla: Cervidae) mediante secuenciacion de ADN mitocondrial y marcadores microsatelitales
2010): Dendropithecoidea, Proconsuloidea, and Hominoidea (Catarrhini, Primates).
The primate fossil record in the Iberian Peninsula
Evaluation of the maximum-likelihood estimate of the evolutionary tree topologies from DNA sequence data, and the branching order in Hominoidea.
Adaptive radiation of day-geckos (Phelsuma) inthe Seychelles archipelago: a phylogenetic analysis

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