It’s surprising that there aren’t more fur-covered Simian-looking aliens on #StarTrek and in other #SciFi (outside of #PlanetOfTheApes).
If we were to encounter lots of humanoid, bipedal, language-using aliens, why wouldn’t some of them look like one of our #Hominina forebears?
#Taxonomy
Members of the human clade, i.e. the Hominini after the split from the chimpanzees, are also rarely called #Hominina. Reference: https://www.geol.umd.edu/~tholtz/G204/lectures/204scatterlings.html
The #human clade comprises the genera Sahelanthropus, Orrorin, Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, Kenyanthropus, Paranthropus, Homo.
Their coexistence in Africa lasted from #4Mya to 1 Mya: 🧵
miriam heddy
anatole