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  • noun Plural form of prehuman.

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Examples

  • The setting is the far future where ancient humans (or "prehumans") are long gone but our scientists like Newton and Einstein have been remembered as gods.

    REVIEW: The January Dancer by Michael Flynn 2009

  • The setting is the far future where ancient humans (or "prehumans") are long gone but our scientists like Newton and Einstein have been remembered as gods.

    SF Signal 2009

  • Can Bratz: Fetuses (“When your womb needs a makeover, these style-conscious prehumans take over!”) and Bratz: Spermatozoa (“You will not believe how they accessorize their flagella!”) be far behind?

    My Year of Flops Nathan Rabin 2010

  • Instead of the transformation illustrated in 1950s textbooks, with a neat progression of chimp to stoop-shouldered caveman to Tony Curtis, many paleontologists believe prehumans emerged in a number of different lines, with all but ours dying out.

    All In The Family 2008

  • Just the kind of place prehumans would have loved -- if any ever lived there.

    All In The Family 2008

  • This "East Side Story" held that prehumans arose after tectonic forces formed the Rift Valley 8 million years ago.

    All In The Family 2008

  • I don't object much to Intelligent Design theorists positing one or two interventions (e.g., to create life in the first place or to kick prehumans up to the human level), but to argue that the Designer is so inept that he must constantly meddle strikes me as nearly sacrilegious.

    Intelligent Design Steve Sailer 2004

  • I don't object much to Intelligent Design theorists positing one or two interventions (e.g., to create life in the first place or to kick prehumans up to the human level), but to argue that the Designer is so inept that he must constantly meddle strikes me as nearly sacrilegious.

    Archive 2004-12-12 Steve Sailer 2004

  • But there too is an alien ship, a bit battered, full of desiccated alien bodies and prehumans.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • After all, humans and prehumans didn't exactly have mass transit.

    HowStuffWorks Daily Feed 2010

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