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Homo superioris en · PROPN

Etymology

From Latin homo (“human being, man, person”) and superioris (“of the higher, superior”), genitive of superior (“higher, superior”), or superior (“higher, superior”) + -is (“suffix to form adjectives”).

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of Homo superior (“The hypothetical next evolutionary step beyond Homo sapiens.”).
    • 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? 1924 July 14, “The Aftermath of Violence”, in The World Tomorrow, volume 7:
    • What is Homo superioris, evolution's Man of to-morrow, to be? 1912, Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Beyond War, Henry Holt & Company, page 150:
    • 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. 1998, Peter Jurasik, William H. Keith, Diplomatic Act, Baen Books, →ISBN, page 358: