protohuman

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Pattison tells the wild tale of the discovery of Ardipithecus, a protohuman that lived 4.4 million years ago in Ethiopia.

From New York Times

It turns out that Denisovans were a distinct lineage of protohuman that split off from Neanderthals about 400,000 years ago.

From Washington Post

Carcinogens abounded 1.7 million years ago in Early Pleistocene times when a nameless protohuman wandered the South African countryside in what came to be known as the Cradle of Humankind.

From New York Times

“I think of Bigfoot as a sort of protohuman, a relative stuck in a primordial state,” says Jim Clauss, a professor of classics at the University of Washington, who knows his mythology.

From Seattle Times

At his death Teilhard was known to the public largely as the "missing link" priest, the handsome, aristocratic paleontologist who helped to analyze the Peking Man and other protohuman skulls unearthed in China.

From Time Magazine Archive