Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various extinct hominins.
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- adjective Pertaining to the first
humans or the beginning ofhumankind . - noun One of the earliest humans.
Etymologies
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Examples
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It's not unlike the discovery of a previously unknown species of protohuman deep within a cave somewhere, revealing some new twist in the constantly expanding canon of human evolution.
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It's not unlike the discovery of a previously unknown species of protohuman deep within a cave somewhere, revealing some new twist in the constantly expanding canon of human evolution.
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I'd like to see some more research on the notion that we all carry a species memory running back to the protohuman days.
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In the psychic menagerie of Bion and Klein, Beckett may also have found hints for the protohuman organisms, the worms and bodiless heads in pots, that populate his various underworlds.
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Or perhaps such racism is an echo of internecine protohuman forest warfare.
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Or perhaps such racism is an echo of internecine protohuman forest warfare.
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Not to mention the central plot about a young scientist who befriends a protohuman boy and nearly makes fire with a tough prehistoric babe named Niawo.
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Or perhaps such racism is an echo of internecine protohuman forest warfare.
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Ever since the 1974 discovery in Ethiopia of the fossil of a little protohuman christened Lucy, it was clear what sort of human ancestor must have walked the Horn of Africa just before her: one that was more apelike.
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If you visited the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History last week, you would have found that the second-floor Physical Anthropology galleries, housing the reconstruction of the head of the protohuman A ustralopithecus, have been closed.
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