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
“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
What we have left are very old ones, prehuman or savage in origin and mostly applying to physical relations.
From The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
