aboriginally

American  

[ab-er-i-juhn-uh-lee] / ˌæb ərˈɪ dʒən ə li /

adverb

1. in or since the earliest time; originally.

2. often Aboriginally, in a way that relates to Aboriginal or other Indigenous peoples, especially of Australia.

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I should here say that natural selection picks out this breed, and would tend to improve it, or aboriginally to have formed it...

From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Sir Francis Darwin

With animals, actions appearing due to intelligence may be performed through inherited habit without any intelligence, although aboriginally thus acquired.

From The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms, with observations on their habits by Charles Darwin

For reasons stated previously the author does not believe that the Tarquines occupied this spot aboriginally.

From The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California by Sherburne F. Cook

As to religion, he says, “There is no evidence that man- 116 - was aboriginally endowed with the ennobling belief in the existence of an omnipotent God.”

From Life of Charles Darwin by G. T. (George Thomas) Bettany

Man, it may be added, does not appear to have aboriginally inhabited any oceanic island; and in this respect he resembles the other members of his class.

From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I by Charles Darwin