hominizationn.
/hɒmɪnʌɪˈzeɪʃən/ The evolutionary development of characteristics, esp. mental or spiritual ones, that are held to distinguish man from other animals.
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the world > people > [noun] > developments distinguishing man
hominization1953
the world > life > biology > biological processes > evolution > [noun] > morphogenesis > derivation or appearance of characters
acquired1794
neomorph1886
paedomorphism1892
neotenia1896
habitat form1902
caenogenesis1909
fetalization1922
paedomorphosis1922
hominization1953
synapomorphy1966
synapomorph1969
1953 J. S. Huxley Evol. in Action vi. 136 The original stock of pre-human apes differentiated into many species, all showing a trend towards what has been called hominization—the acquisition of more human characters.
1959 B. Wall tr. P. Teilhard de Chardin Phenomenon of Man iii. i. 180 Hominisation can be accepted in the first place as the individual and instantaneous leap from instinct to thought, but it is also..the progressive phyletic spiritualisation in human civilisation of all the forces contained in the animal world.
1962 W. Howells Ideas on Human Evol. 295 (heading) The hominization of the masticatory apparatus, and modifications of diet.
Derivatives
ˈhominized adj.
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the world > people > [adjective] > having human qualities
human1837
hominized1959
1959 B. Wall tr. P. Teilhard de Chardin Phenomenon of Man iii. iii. 223 Are not the artificial, the moral and the juridical simply the hominised versions of the natural, the physical and the organic?
1973 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Apr. 479/3 To supersede Rudolph Otto's notion of the holy as the numinous..and to do this for a hominized, secularized world.
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