prehuman

Example Sentences

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He named the prehuman species Australopithecus africanus — the southern ape of Africa.

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2023

Since its inception over a century ago, the conservation movement has been plagued by a conviction that "real" nature possesses a kind of "prehuman purity," they write.

From Salon • May 24, 2022

“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 first followers of Darwin believed that the human species had been raised above its prehuman ancestors because, and in so far as, it had surrendered itself to a blind instinct of conflict.

From Human Nature in Politics Third Edition by Wallas, Graham