Crossword-Solution: PREHUMAN 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

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

What we have left are very old ones, prehuman or savage in origin and mostly applying to physical relations.

That we are less conscious of and have less control over eating and drinking [provided the food be normal], swallowing, breathing, seeing, and hearing--which were acquisitions of our prehuman ancestry, and for which we had provided ourselves with all the necessary apparatus before we saw light, but which are still, geologically speaking, recent.

Some there are, accustomed to the vision of tables of stone engraved by the hand of God and set up for man's obedience amid Sinaitic thunders, for whom the discovery of the humble human and prehuman origin, and the stumbling hit-or-miss evolution, of morality dulls its sanctity.

That we are _less conscious of_, _and have less control over_, eating and drinking, swallowing, breathing, seeing and hearing, which were acquisitions of our prehuman ancestry, and for which we had provided ourselves with all the necessary apparatus before we saw light, but which are still, geologically speaking, recent, or comparatively recent.