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  • noun Plural form of protohuman.

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Examples

  • Actually, most prehistoric humans and "protohumans" (

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  • This could be taken as a sort of natural baseline of violence against which the protohumans are measured.

    Before Adam by Jack London Karen Burnham 2008

  • In the novel London depicts three separate groups of protohumans.

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  • In it he takes Darwinian theory, imagines a time of transition between different levels of protohumans, and uses that to look at different types of violence.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Karen Burnham 2008

  • This could be taken as a sort of natural baseline of violence against which the protohumans are measured.

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  • Tree-dwelling apelike protohumans first emerged somewhere between 5 and 9 million years ago.

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  • According to natural selection, protohumans that became bipedal would have been more apt to mate, launching their genes for that trait into the next generation.

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  • In the novel London depicts three separate groups of protohumans.

    Before Adam by Jack London Karen Burnham 2008

  • Tree-dwelling apelike protohumans first emerged somewhere between 5 and 9 million years ago.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • In it he takes Darwinian theory, imagines a time of transition between different levels of protohumans, and uses that to look at different types of violence.

    Before Adam by Jack London Karen Burnham 2008

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