Etymology
Origin of prehuman
Example Sentences
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“Germs of disease have taken toll of humanity since the beginning of things – taken toll of our prehuman ancestors since life began here.”
From Fox News • Apr. 12, 2020
One of her first childhood stories was a fable about a fantastical prehuman era in which animals built an advanced civilization, but then destroyed it—along with their ability to speak—in a war.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 20, 2020
Modern scientific renditions of the prehuman world might seem far more careful and realistic.
From The Guardian • Feb. 17, 2011
Other Green romantics decided that even hydropower is wicked, because it is generated by dams that despoil the prehuman landscape.
From Salon • Jan. 18, 2011
So long as the organic hosts were in the prehuman stage the maintenance of the accord was easily and naturally attained.
From Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization by Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate
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