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hominization

[ hom-uh-nuh-zey-shuhn ]

noun

  1. the evolution of the human traits that set the genus Homo apart from its primate ancestors.

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Origin of hominization1

1950–55; < Latin homin- (stem of homō man ( Homo ) + -ization

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