hominization
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin homo (“human being”) + -ization.
Noun[edit]
hominization (usually uncountable, plural hominizations)
- (paleontology) The process of becoming like a human.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 8:
- The professional way to begin a study of the origins of human culture is to begin at the beginning with a discussion of hominization.
- (theology) The beginning of human life, or of a deity's life in human form.
Translations[edit]
the process of becoming like a human
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