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human being

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English

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Etymology

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Fromhuman(adjective) +‎being(noun).The wordhuman was originally an adjective, thus requiring a base noun.^[1]

Pronunciation

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IPA^(key): /ˌhjuːmən ˈbiːɪŋ/
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Noun

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human being (pluralhuman beings)

Aperson; a largesapient,bipedalprimate, with notably less hair than others of thatorder, of the speciesHomo sapiens.
- 1749,Henry Fielding,The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume III, VII xiv:
  He began to reflect that in a few Minutes he might possibly deprive ahuman Being of Life, or might lose his own.
Any member of the genusHomo, including extinct species.
- 1983, Valjean McLenighan,China, A History to 1949‎^[1], Chicago:Children's Press,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,page10:
  The first realhuman beings in China lived about 600,000 years ago. Fossils ofGigantopithecus, a Latin name for Giant Ape, were dug up at Lan-t'ien in the early 1960s. Though they looked a lot like apes, the Lan-t'ien people were among the first of our species to make tools.
- 2002, Hyun Höchsmann,On Peter Singer, Wadsworth/Thomson Learning,→ISBN,page 2:
  AsAustralopithecus evolved into the firsthuman being,Homo habilis, and then into the species,Homo sapiens, we have evolved as social beings
- 2006, P. & C. Zaleski,Prayer: A History, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,→ISBN,page15:
  Who was the firsthuman being to pray? Perhaps he or she was a member ofHomo habilis, the first truly human species, who roamed the gorges and plains of sub-Saharan Africa about two million years ago, or perhaps a member ofHomo erectus (1.6 million—300,000B.C.E.),Homo habilis’s immediate descendants, who spread across half the globe, from the eastern plains of Asia to the valleys of northern Europe.
- 2006, M.S. Green,Engaging Philosophy, Hackett,→ISBN,page143:
  The category “human being” is a biological one, andHomo erectus,Homo sapiens, andHomo floresiensis all belong in it.
- 2007, K. Kotsakis, “Tools and language”, in A.F. Christidis, editor,A History of Ancient Greek, Cambridge University Press,→ISBN,page106:
  A specific part of the left hemisphere, known as Broca's area, which is associated in modern humans with speech production, has already been observed in casts of the brain ofhomo habilis, the firsthuman being to make tools
- 2009, B. Waters,Zambia in Pictures, Twenty-First Century Books,→ISBN,page20:
  At several sites in Zambia, archaeologists have found stone tools dating back more than 200,000 years. The people who created these tools were probablyHomo erectus, an early type ofhuman being.
- 2014, S. Rasmussen,The Greatest Safari: In the Beginning Was Africa, 30 Degrees South,→ISBN,pages223–224:
  We have an idea that the firsthuman being,Homo habilis, was the fruit of anAustralopithecus – eitherafricanus orgarhi – and that it subsequently developed into the upright humanHomo erectus, from which both the Neanderthal and the modernhuman being derive
- 2018, H. Foyaca-Sibat, L.F. Ibañez-Valdés, “Introductory Chapter”, in H. Foyaca-Sibat, editor,Seizures,→DOI,→ISBN,page 2:
  Probably the firsthuman being infected byTaenia solium was theHomo ergaster [1, 2]. Therefore, the history of epileptic seizures began at the Lower Pleistocene (between 1.51 and 1.56 million years ago) whenH. ergaster lived.