protohominid
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editprotohominid (plural protohominids)
- Any of several primitive animals that were evolutionary ancestors of the hominids.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 193:
- Although the ethological studies of chimpanzees cannot present us with a picture of the life of the protohominids, they can give us some insights into what these conditions may have been like.
Adjective
editprotohominid (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to these creatures.