protohuman
- noun
- /ˈproʊtoʊˌhjuːmən/
- Specialized
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protohumano
- Who can forget how the weapons stored on the Moon in 3001: The Final Odyssey provide the means to combat the monoliths, or how learning to use bones as weapons gives one band of protohumans an advantage over a competing group in 20017?
Examples
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Occipital bone: Large, protohuman
Academic text (2009) -
...a protohuman.
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I feel like the protohuman, coming out of the forest primeval... ...and seeing the moon for the first time and throwing rocks at it.
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...a protohuman.
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You do not have to believe that language developed because a protohuman spoke a word that increased the person's fitness, and that this word gene then flourished in the population.
Academic text (1999) -
I am all about listening to your argument in support of the possibility that protohumans could have developed out of instinctual responses into language and cohesive culture without religion, but the fact is that you don't have a single example of it happening.
Blog text (24) -
Namely, we were discussing the notion that if it were possible to come up with an experiment to determine whether or not it would be possible for protohuman-type populations to develop without religious inclinations, would it be ethical to perform any experiments that would help make that determination?
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The discovery of a protohuman skull provided essential insight into the evolution of early humans.
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Researchers found tools made by protohumans dating back thousands of years in the caves.
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The protohuman species is believed to have lived alongside large prehistoric animals.
Synonyms
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An early ancestor of people like us who lived long ago
An extinct early human ancestor from Africa that lived long ago
An extinct early human relative with ape features
An early human with features between apes and people today
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Etymology
Protohuman is made of proto- meaning 'first' and human meaning 'person', like prototype where proto- shows the 'first' model. A protohuman as a noun is an early human ancestor, a 'first' kind of person not yet fully modern.