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But now that there is evidence to indicate that the Terran Colony was an experiment, the planting of one Hainish Normal group on a world with its own proto-hominid autochthones, the possibility cannot be ignored.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

In some representations of him he is depicted as half snake, so that he was one of the autochthones, the earth-born ancestors of the Athenians.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various

Such were the aborigines, if not the absolute autochthones, of Cuba.

From The History of Cuba, vol. 1 by Johnson, Willis Fletcher

If they are autochthones, from what germs did they start into existence?

From Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence by Agassiz, Louis

The twenty May-poles which Cato proposed to plant in the hall stood already incarnate there as autochthones.

From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography by Jean Paul