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prehuman

[ pree-hyoo-muhnor, often, -yoo- ]

adjective

  1. preceding the appearance or existence of human beings:

    the prehuman ages.

  2. of or relating to a human prototype.


noun

  1. a prehuman animal.
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of prehuman1

First recorded in 1835–45; pre- + human
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He named the prehuman species Australopithecus africanus — the southern ape of Africa.

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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.

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These demagogues basically tap into the very primitive prehuman programming in the limbic part of the brain.

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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.

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

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