protohuman
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- adjective
- /ˈproʊtoʊˌhjuːmən/
- Specialized
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protohumano
- The sad thing is, I am all about having a rational and interesting conversation about the role of religion in the development of language and culture of our protohuman ancestors.
Examples
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If you are talking about developing protohuman cultures, I am rather confused, because I daresay that these populations weren't civilizations; they were developing cultures.
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Research into protohuman species helps us uncover the early stages of human development and evolution.
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Can we know absolutely what our protohuman ancestors believed, and what role religion played in their development of rudimentary culture?
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I happen to think this is a fascinating topic and would love to have someone throw hypothetical social development at the protohuman level, into primitive human cultures, and even to the development of state-level societies.
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It stood up, faced him, and made what sounded like, he described as sort of a protohuman language, and what it sounded like to the man was the utterance of the word Gadara.
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And what part of "I don't think it likely that our protohuman ancestors would have developed culture -- would have developed very far past rudimentary language and basic instincts, without gods to make it all fit together for them," wasn't clear?
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Scientists often study tools made by protohuman ancestors to understand their behaviors and social structures.
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The artifacts found in the cave reveal much about the protohuman lifestyle and their ability to adapt to changing environments.
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Etymology
Protohuman comes from the prefix proto- which means 'first' or 'early' and human which means 'person'. So as an adjective, protohuman describes things that belong to very early human ancestors, which is why it means 'relating to the earliest stages of human evolution'.