prehuman
Example Sentences
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These demagogues basically tap into the very primitive prehuman programming in the limbic part of the brain.
From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2021
“Germs of disease have taken toll of humanity since the beginning of things – taken toll of our prehuman ancestors since life began here.”
From Fox News ● Apr. 12, 2020
One of her first childhood stories was a fable about a fantastical prehuman era in which animals built an advanced civilization, but then destroyed it—along with their ability to speak—in a war.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 20, 2020
The panels, Ms. Holup said, are intended to invoke centuries of life and activity, both human and prehuman.
From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2017
So long as the organic hosts were in the prehuman stage the maintenance of the accord was easily and naturally attained.
From Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
