protohuman

The logistical problems of fitting the new protohuman into the family and the community are the rest of the story.

These early humans were descendants of the protohuman Homo erectus, which first migrated from Africa about 1.7 million years ago.

The bones of Australopithecus anamensis are the earliest unambiguous evidence for upright walking, or bipedalism, by a protohuman.

Then, too, in these hills there were still the remnants of the wild hominids called by early explorers catmen; they were sentient, probably protohuman, and very dangerous.

He is sometimes confused with Kull, a barbarian hero and king created by Robert E. Howard, but Howard's Kull was an ancient human in a sword-and-sorcery setting rather than a protohuman with science-fiction technology.

This dramatic pair of antecedents are vividly recreated, with one protohuman's hairy arm draped protectively across the shoulder of the other, in a life-size tableau in the American Museum of Natural History's new exhibition on evolution.

Dr. Rightmire said he could not be sure if the specimen was Homo erectus or an archaic Homo sapiens, but at either the younger or older age, he noted, the jawbone represented a provocative clue to protohuman activity outside Africa.

The authors of the Science paper saw the ancient bones discovered in Africa and Asia not as representatives of various stages in the development of a single species, as they had commonly been seen before, but as representatives of several different protohuman species that inhabited the earth at the same time.