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n. - The earliest known inhabitants of a region.

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  • He was an autochthon, a handsome creature by any standards.
  • Then Chee darted between those legs, tumbled the autochthon on his tocus and bounded onward.
  • The presence on plants and animals of any autochthon-morphological characters means death to Darwinism, because these can never be explained by means of selection and...
  • On Myral, where I had spent the last ten years, only a little of such status attached to the largest autochthon — not surprising for a creature whose name is a...
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