| St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas both held that hominization, or the coming into being of the human, occurs only gradually. |
| The practice of wife-capture appears in many significant hominization scenarios in early prehistoric fiction, but rarely in the progressionist sense intended by McLennan. |
| His claim also differed sharply from the mosaicist position of Elliot Smith, who held that hominization began with an enlarged cranial capacity. |
| In short, hominization, the process of the emergence of the human species, is not over. |
| The hominization of history through technological progress, then, need not imply the banishment of God from history, but only the banishment of idols. |
| If true, this supposition rules out ontological discontinuities in the process of hominization and in the evolution of human culture. |
