prehuman

Example Sentences

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Since its inception over a century ago, the conservation movement has been plagued by a conviction that "real" nature possesses a kind of "prehuman purity," they write.

From Salon • May 24, 2022

The planet is currently losing its biodiversity at 100 to 1,000 times the prehuman extinction rate.

From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2020

“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

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