protohuman

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They agree, however, that explanation is needed of how a weak, vulnerable and not-very-successful protohuman later came to dominate the whole world, and reach outward into the universe.

From New York Times

“In several years it’ll just be a useless appendage, like the last protohuman with a tail,” Engadget wrote in its review of the most recent MacBook Pro.

From The Verge

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

If that counted for anything, then Africa enjoyed an enormous advantage: at least 5 million more years of separate protohuman existence than on any other continent.

From Literature