prehuman

Example Sentences

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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

Modern scientific renditions of the prehuman world might seem far more careful and realistic.

From The Guardian • Feb. 17, 2011

Probably these European forefathers of existing man came from a stock which had previously gone through its early human and prehuman stages in Asia.

From A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open by Roosevelt, Theodore