A taxonomic family or classification name relating to humans or human-like primates, sometimes used in older or alternative biological taxonomies.
From Greek anthropos 'human' + -idae (taxonomic family suffix), literally 'the human family' in Linnaean classification.
This name reveals a weird moment in taxonomy: early scientists debated whether humans deserved their own family (Anthropidae) or should be grouped with apes. Modern genetics solved it—we're cousins in Hominidae, not separate.
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