Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The evolutionary process leading to the development of the characteristics that distinguish hominins from other primates. Not in scientific use.
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- noun paleontology the process of becoming like a
human - noun theology the beginning of human life, or of a deity's life in human form
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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St. Anselm of Canterbury gave the most forceful statement in favor of the delayed hominization thesis: "No human intellect accepts the view that an infant has the rational soul from the moment of conception."
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This theory of "delayed hominization" is the most consistent thread throughout church history on abortion.
Abortion and quickening Doctor Science 2009
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This theory of "delayed hominization" is the most consistent thread throughout church history on abortion.
Archive 2009-06-01 Doctor Science 2009
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St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas both held that hominization, or the coming into being of the human, occurs only gradually.
Epigenesis and Preformationism Maienschein, Jane 2005
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And if you're interested in hominization, i.e., how we became human, you'd write pf rather than antebellum bodice rippers or poignant sagas about gender-conflicted vampires.
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This also happened for humankind - along the paleoanthropological process of [[hominization]] - in accordance with its ecological and, possibly, its long-term cultural changes.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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This also happened for humankind - along the paleoanthropological process of hominization - in accordance with its ecological and, possibly, its long-term cultural changes.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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This also happened for humankind - along the paleoanthropological process of hominization - in accordance with its ecological and, possibly, its long-term cultural changes.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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This also happened for humankind - along the paleoanthropological process of hominization - in accordance with its ecological and, possibly, its long-term cultural changes.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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