The great apes

The seven living species of the family Hominidae, including our own.

• HumanHomo sapiens
• ChimpanzeePan troglodytes
• BonoboPan paniscus
• Western GorillaGorilla gorilla
• Eastern GorillaGorilla beringei
• Bornean OrangutanPongo pygmaeus
• Sumatran OrangutanPongo abelii

About this list

Hominidae was once reserved for humans alone, with the other great apes placed in a separate family Pongidae. That arrangement did not survive molecular systematics: chimpanzees and bonobos are more closely related to humans than either is to gorillas, which makes the old "great apes" grouping paraphyletic unless humans are included in it.

Every non-human species on this list is Endangered or Critically Endangered. The eighth great ape is the one reading this.