[[File:Hominoid taxonomy 7.svg|thumb|center|300px|Klasifikasi taksonomi atas hominoid]]{{Clear|left}}
TraditionallySecara tradisional, [[chimpanzeesimpanse]]s, [[gorillagorila]]s, anddan [[orangutanorang utan]]sweredikelompokkan groupedsebagai together as [[''pongidae|pongids]]''. SinceSejak klasifikasi Gray's classification, evidencebukti-bukti hasyang accumulatedterkumpul from geneticdari [[phylogenyfilogeni]] confirminggenetik thatmengonfirmasi [[human]]sbahwa manusia, chimpanzeessimpanse, anddan gorillasgorila arelebih moreberkerabat closelydekat relatedsatu tosama eachlain otherdibandingkan thandengan toorang the orangutanutan. The former pongids were reassigned to the subfamily [[Hominidae]] ("great [[ape]]s"), which already included humans,<ref name="NcNulty2016">{{cite journal|last1=McNulty|first1=K. P.|date=2016|title=Hominin Taxonomy and Phylogeny: What's In A Name?|url=https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/hominin-taxonomy-and-phylogeny-what-s-in-142102877/|journal=Nature Education Knowledge|volume=7|issue=1|pages=2|quote=However, overwhelming genetic evidence has since demonstrated that humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas are much more closely related to each other than to the orangutan ... Thus, there is no genetic support for grouping the great apes together in a distinct group from humans. For this reason, many researchers now place all species of great ape and human within a single family, Hominidae – making them all proper 'hominids'.}}</ref> butMantan theanggota details''pongidae'' ofdipindahkan thiske reassignmentsubfamili remain''[[Hominidae]]'' contested;("kera within Homininibesar"), notyang everysudah sourcemencakup excludes gorillas, and not every source includes chimpanzeesmanusia.
Secara tradisional, [[simpanse]], [[gorila]], dan [[orang utan]] dikelompokkan sebagai ''pongidae''. Sejak klasifikasi Gray, bukti-bukti yang terkumpul dari [[filogeni]] genetik mengonfirmasi bahwa manusia, simpanse, dan gorila lebih berkerabat dekat satu sama lain dibandingkan dengan orang utan.<ref name="NcNulty2016" /> Mantan anggota ''pongidae'' dipindahkan ke subfamili ''[[Hominidae]]'' ("kera besar"), yang sudah mencakup manusia.
Manusia adalah satu-satunya spesies yang masih ada dalam cabang (sub-suku) [[Australopithecine]], yang juga terdiri dari banyak kerabat dekat manusia yang telah punah.
