1. The chief effect is to highlight the horror of the desolate and pre-human world of purposeless suffering.

2. Rather, it begins in prehuman times and concludes on the eve of the American and French Revolutions.

3. The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution. By Francis Fukuyama.

4. Though keeping to his playful ways, he heightens the sense of linkage between prehuman and present-day experience, the biological depth, as it were, of our species.

5. They are a part of an archetype called the shadow. It derives from our prehuman, animal past, when our concerns were limited to survival and reproduction, and when we weren't self-conscious.

6. The sediba fossils encompass the most extensive set of early prehuman remains ever found, the scientists said.

7. They compared the sediba crowns, molars and incisors to those from eight other prehuman species and also to gorillas.