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protohuman

[ proh-toh-hyoo-muhnor, often, -yoo- ]

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or resembling extinct hominin populations that had some but not all the features of modern Homo sapiens.


noun

  1. a protohuman animal.

protohuman

/ 藢辫谤蓹蕣迟蓹蕣藞丑箩耻藧尘蓹苍 /

noun

  1. any of various prehistoric primates that resembled modern man
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. of or relating to any of these primates
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

protohuman

  1. Any of various extinct hominids or other extinct primates that were primitive predecessors or ancestors of humans.
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of protohuman1

First recorded in 1905鈥10; proto- + human
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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.

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鈥淚n several years it鈥檒l just be a useless appendage, like the last protohuman with a tail,鈥 Engadget wrote in its review of the most recent MacBook Pro.

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Those with ultrahigh thresholds are those whom 鈥渨e think of as belonging to somewhat different categories: protohuman like children, subhuman like the mad or suprahuman like saints.鈥

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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.

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

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