prehuman

Example Sentences

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His greed is hard-wired, a genetic inheritance, a prehuman trait that this human has turned into a rage for power.

From New York Times

They may have revealed a prehuman baseline for many waterways, but they know change is a constant of geology.

From Science Magazine

According to a report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the rhythmic moves suggest that the urge to dance has a prehuman origin, reaching at least as far back as the primate from which all humans and chimps descended.

From The Guardian

The shadows of many prehuman civilizations could, in principle, lurk hidden in such subtleties.

From Scientific American

“I find it amazing that no one had worked all this out before, and I’m really glad that somebody has taken a closer look at it,” says Pennsylvania State University astronomer Jason Wright, who last year published “a fluffy little paper” exploring the counterintuitive notion that the best place to find evidence of any of Earth’s putative prehuman civilizations may well be off-world.

From Scientific American