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super-primate en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of superprimate.
   alt of superprimate
   • The older brain is very old indeed, and in its super-primate form served hominids well during their long hunting-and-gathering period. 1979, Howard L. Parsons, Man Today: Problems, Values and Fulfillment, →ISBN, page 143:
   • None of them have real thoughts, none can foresee the future or regret the past, none are self-aware, except the super-primate humans, us. 1996, Lewis Thomas, Fragile Species, →ISBN, page 102:
   • In deference to William of Ockham, it would seem prudent to view genus Homo as a super-primate up to the point where new models and theories are required to make sense of the more phylogenetically advanced behavioral phenomena. 2013, K. Bailey, Human Paleopsychology, →ISBN:
2. An exemplary primate.
   • I'd read in a book about monkeys that the primate nervous system was slow to be turned on and even slower to switch off. If so, Pia was a super-primate in that she took forever to respond but once aroused could never calm down. 2012, Edmund White, Jack Holmes and His Friend, →ISBN, page 254:

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