prehuman

About 0.05 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Preceding the advent of modern humanity, Homo sapiens.
2. noun One of the human-like creatures that existed before Homo sapiens.

Similar words

premodern prebiological preterhuman precivilized preexistent posthuman prescientific preprimitive prebiotic primal

Often followed by

ancestors and past species world times history primates flux

Word family

prehumans