A family classification in biology (historically used) that was supposed to include human-like or humanoid organisms, though the term is largely obsolete in modern taxonomy.
From 'anthropomorphic' + '-idae' (taxonomic family suffix). An archaic zoological term from 19th-century natural history when classification systems were less rigorous.
Early naturalists struggled with how to classify humans—should we be in a family with apes, or separate?—and invented names like this before DNA revealed we're just one species among many apes, all sharing a recent common ancestor!
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