prehuman
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7.5
- adjective
- /ˌpriːˈhjuːmən/
- Specialized
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prehumano
- Francis Fukuyama is a Senior Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University and the author, most recently, of The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution.
Examples
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> But we have prehuman, early-development, and cross-cultural evidence of both morality and numeracy (or, if you prefer, pre-morality and pre-numeracy).
Blog text (25) -
But we have prehuman, early-development, and cross-cultural evidence of both morality and numeracy (or, if you prefer, pre-morality and pre-numeracy).
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The prehuman past.
Academic text (1995) -
We fear global warming, yet even the most radical model yields an Earth far cooler than many happy and prosperous times of a prehuman past.
Academic text (1990) -
Eating meat and cooking food made us human, the studies suggest, enabling the brains of our prehuman ancestors to grow dramatically over a few million years.
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Find a place-time on Earth, prehuman, where there is good turf and not too many weeds.
Fiction book (2000) -
The fossil record from the prehuman era contains evidence of birds, mice, shrews, and pygmy mammoths.
Academic text (2010) -
If the goal is to return one or more of the islands to its pristine prehuman state, one could argue for wiping out island foxes, tipping the balance back in favor of skunks and ground-nesting birds.
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Fossil bones preserved in ancient bald eagle nests from the prehuman era contain no trace of fox, though more recent nests hold a smattering of fox bones among collections dominated by fish and seabird bones.
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The scientist discovered several prehuman tools in the excavation site that date back thousands of years.
Synonyms
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8.8
Relating to early ancestors from the first stages of human development
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word prehuman comes from the parts pre- meaning 'before' and human meaning 'person'. So, prehuman is used for things, times, or stages that existed 'before humans' appeared.