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prehuman, a. (n.)|priːˈhjuːmən|
[pre- B. 1.]
Preceding the human; previous to the existence of man upon the earth. Also as n.
1844R. Chambers Vest. Creation, Orig. Anim. Tribes, Throughout the whole of the pre-human period. 1883A. Wilson in G. Allen et al. Nature Studies 105 That which the evolutionist and naturalist desire to know, is the nature of the forms which..must have connected the human root-stock with the pre-human root. 1900H. Macpherson H. Spencer 117 Studying mental processes in their earlier pre-human manifestations. 1932S. Zuckerman Social Life Monkeys ii. 24 There is no clear reason why the social behaviour of the ‘pre-humans’ should be considered to have been like that of apes rather than like that of monkeys. 1958A. R. Radcliffe-Brown Method in Social Anthropol. ii. v. 181 It is reasonable to fix the real change from pre-human to human social life by reference to the beginnings of language. 1973G. Olivier in M. H. Day Human Evolution 94 The possibility that man..may only have appeared very late, and that the other fossils, including Pithecanthropus, may be only pre-human hominids. |