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Features by which extant hominoids are distinguishable from cercopithecoids can be readily identified. Anyone schooled in primate biology could generate a comprehensive list of these features; a less comprehensive although still generally accurate list could probably be generated by any observant individual. From such a list it would not be too difficult to come up with a short characterization of hominoids that unified the various features into a few more generalized traits, abilities, and so forth. I suspect there would be sufficient conformity in these characterizations such that there would be few disagreements as to how to define a hominoid. It is surely the case, however, that character lists would become shorter and the entire exercise more challenging the further back one went into the hominoid record.
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Kelley, J. (1997). Paleobiological and Phylogenetic Significance of Life History in Miocene Hominoids. In: Begun, D.R., Ward, C.V., Rose, M.D. (eds) Function, Phylogeny, and Fossils. Advances in Primatology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0075-3_9
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