prehuman

These germs of disease have taken toll of humanity since the beginning of things--taken toll of our prehuman ancestors since life began here.

At the beginning of the modern era, these developments were crucial to begin to suppress the endemic cronyism that had marked much of the activity of our prehuman and human ancestors for millions of years.

Her dolmens, photographed up close, reclaim their prehuman minerality, while, conversely, her photogravures of blanched geological landscapes resemble models or scenic backdrops.

with the earlier prehuman phase of cosmic being during which time human

Since ecological change is inevitable, Thomas urges us to throw aside static notions of restoring local ecosystems to some imagined prehuman Edenic state.

The first part of the book ranges widely over typical big history topics: big bang cosmology, the origins of our universe and planet, the evolution of life on Earth, prehuman and human ancestors, and ancient myths of origins.

This indestructible prehuman rhythm is the only visible journey of the Invisible on this earth.

"Our research shows how little we know of Australia's immediate prehuman avifauna," researcher Trevor Worthy said.

Large numbers allowed Whitman to articulate a very early version of what, in the second half of the twentieth century, came to be called "deep time" and "deep space," concepts necessitated by the vast geological and astronomical expansions of the limits of human perception and conception that have opened the realms of the posthuman (and the prehuman), creating what Mark McGurl has called "the posthuman comedy." (12) The posthuman comedy is what results when we begin to realize "the deep time of the earth sciences is difficult to integrate into even the most capacious visions of civilizational, national, or institutional continuity," shrinking all literature--indeed, all of human existence--into "what Italo Calvino might call [the] cosmicomically small" (McGurl 538).