hominine http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9605 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Homo https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q171283 Homo The genus which emerged in the otherwise extinct genus Australopithecus that encompasses the extant species Homo sapiens (modern humans), plus several extinct species classified as either ancestral to or closely related to modern humans (depending on a species), most notably Homo erectus and Homo neanderthalensis. The genus is taken to emerge with the appearance of Homo habilis, just over two million years ago.