prehuman

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These demagogues basically tap into the very primitive prehuman programming in the limbic part of the brain.

From Salon • Jan. 8, 2021

“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

The first followers of Darwin believed that the human species had been raised above its prehuman ancestors because, and in so far as, it had surrendered itself to a blind instinct of conflict.

From Human Nature in Politics Third Edition by Wallas, Graham