Etymologically, al least I believe there is no difference. The hebrew translates אדם MAN or HUMAN BEING. Interestingly, in the Genesis אדם sounds ADAM and then becomes a name for the first human being.

My five cents

Jorge

I prefer "hominid". It's gender-proof and, at least in my mind, suggests respect for the atrocities this species has committed against so much of the flora and fauna of this planet, retrieves some modicum of humility after millennia of talk of masters of  the universe. I have no bible here to consult, but I remember some such bravado gibberish there about enslaving every other life form for our every wish and whim. I do find myself sometimes rooting in the movies for the whale, the shark, the bear, the lion and the tiger in their defense against genocidal hominids. There is simply too much religious and rapacious pride in "human," humankind, "man," "mankind" and the like. So let's just call us hominids and be done with it.

English:

Dear Charles:

Thank you very much for answering my question. Part of the origin of that question relates to the inordinate points of this being that you name as hominid. Now as I watch your interest in the subject and hopes to continue working together someday, then I have two questions that remain unresolved in my head:

If the stop called pink rose would no longer be a rose. In this idea I want to convey that no matter the name the "hominid" would not be hominid and as always will therefore hominids Are all the same?

The name does not make the man. The concepts of Man and Human Being. They're synonyms? or the concept of human being is different from humans and which elements sustain their differences? and what characterizes each one?

Greetings and hope to keep in touch with you

Ferro

Español

Estimado Charles:

Muchas gracias por contestar a mi pregunta. Parte del origen de dicha pregunta, tiene relación a  los puntos desmesurados de este ser que nombras como homínido. Ahora como observo tu interés en el tema y en espera de seguir trabajando juntos algún día, te tengo entonces dos preguntas, que siguen sin resolverse en mi cabeza:

Si la rosa dejara de llamarse rosa dejaría de ser una rosa. En esta idea quiero transmitir que sin importar el nombre el "homínido" dejaría de ser homínido y en tanto siempre será así, por lo tanto ¿todos los homínidos son iguales? 

El nombre no hace al hombre. Los conceptos de Hombre y Ser Humano. ¿Son sinónimos? o el concepto de ser humano es diferente al de ser humano y en qué elementos sustentamos sus diferencias? y ¿qué caracteriza a cada uno?

Un saludo y espero seguir en comunicación contigo

Ferro 

A very rough anthropological survey of terminology

man, mankind, modern humans: homo sapiens sapiens: the only remaining and, so far, final hominid; language, abstract thought,, political organization, agriculture, industry, war, religion, science; we who speak to one another; about 200,000 years ago; cro-magnon

humans: mankind, neandertals (homo sapien neandertalensis), homo floresiensis, homo heidelbergensis, homo habilis, homo erectus, homo ergaster, homo antecessor; about 1.5 to 2 million years ago (in Europe about 1 million years ago). Paleolithic

hominids: upright, tool-making, separate lineage from chimps and apes, some become human, others extinct; australopithicus. About 4-5 million years ago