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Proto-human may refer to:
- Archaic Homo sapiens, a loosely defined classification that includes a number of varieties of Homo
- Australopithecina, a collective classification of extinct, close relatives of humans, some of which are probable ancestors of humans and early hominins
- Proto-Human language, a designation of the hypothetical most recent common ancestor of all the world's languages