Homo superioris

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English

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).

Proper noun

Homo superioris

  1. Alternative form of Homo superior (The hypothetical next evolutionary step beyond Homo sapiens.)
    • 1912, Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Beyond War, Henry Holt & Company, page 150:
      What is Homo superioris, evolution's Man of to-morrow, to be?
    • 1924 July, “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, Peter Jurasik, William H. Keith, 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.