Homo superioris
English
Etymology
New Latin, from Latin homo (“human being, man, person”) + superior (“higher, superior”).
Proper noun
- A taxonomic species within the family Hominidae. Hypothetical next evolutionary step beyond Homo sapiens.
- 1912, Kellogg, Vernon Lyman, Beyond War, Henry Holt & Company, page 150:
- What is Homo superioris, evolution's Man of to-morrow, to be?
- 1924 July 1, “The Aftermath of Violence”, in The World Tomorrow, volume 7:
- What chance has the species "homo superioris," of the poets and eugenists, of being born from racial stocks depleted mentally and physically by the environment of violence?
- 1998, Jurasik, Peter; Keith, William H., Diplomatic Act, Baen Books, →ISBN, page 358:
- Homo superioris, in fact. We are the humans' remote descendants, as far removed from them in time and evolution as they are from early Homo erectus.
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