Citations:Homo superior

English citations of Homo superior and Homo superiors

Noun: "evolutionary step beyond Homo sapiens."

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• 1935, Olaf Stapledon, Odd John:

  Homo Superior faced the little mob of Homo Sapiens, and it was immediately evident that Homo Superior was indeed the better man.

• 1943 August, John Campbell, “Brass Tacks”, in Astounding Science-Fiction, volume 31, number 6, page 158:

  How do you decide whether a man is an abnormally brilliant homo sapiens or a low-grade homo superior, anyway?

• 1947 April, Henry Kuttner, Catherine Lucille Moore, “Project”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume 39, number 2:

  Your children’s children will see the day. They will be the dominant majority. I shall be conquered not by homo sapiens, but by homo superiors.

• 1954 April, Philip K. Dick, “The Golden Man”, in If, volume 3, number 2:

  We'll know homo superior when he comes — by definition. He'll be the one we won't be able to euth.

• 1959, Richard "Dick" Harris Eney, Fancyclopedia II‎^[1], Superman:

  Homo superior, humanoids with extra-human powers, like the Slans or many another mutant.

• 1963 September 10, Stan Lee, “X-Men”, in The X-Men, volume 1, number 1, page 11:

  Magneto: "The first phase of my plan shall be to show my power... to make Homo sapiens bow to Homo superior!"

• 1971, “Oh! You Pretty Things”, in Hunky Dory, performed by David Bowie:

  You gotta make way¶ for the Homo Superior

• 1973 April 30, Roger Price, Brian Finch, The Slaves of Jedikiah (The Tomorrow People), season 1, episode 1:

  Carol: "Well, no, not like you and me. We're different. We're Homo superior, but we don't like to call ourselves that so we call ourselves the Tomorrow People."

• 1988, Peter Nicholls, The Science in Science Fiction, Crescent Books, →ISBN, Men and Supermen:

  It is not surprising, therefore, that speculative writers should assume that Homo superior — the species destined to replace our own — should do so on account of being even smarter and even handier.

• 1994 November 30, David R. Henry, “Re: Definition of 'mutant'”, in rec.arts.comics.xbooks‎^[2] (Usenet), message-ID <D03KEu.wq3@ns1.nodak.edu>:

  _Homo superior_ -- a silly name for mutantkind, since they're not a separate species, and one the X-Men should be actively be publically disavowing, due to the obvious negative PR effects it could have on the _Homo not-so-superior's_ perceptions of mutants -- has been the official Marvel terminology for mutants for some time. Myself, I prefer _Homo novus_, but then what do I know?

• 1997 June 9, J. Michael Straczynski, The Face of the Enemy (Babylon 5), season 4, episode 17:

  Wade: "It's the tyranny of evolution. Sooner or later, you have a species that will have a genetic or technological advantage and that species will always conquer a species without that advantage. Carthage, the triumph of the Homo sapiens over the Neanderthal showed us that. Now what do we have? We have Homo superior versus Homo sapiens. On a level playing field, Homo superior wins every time."

• 2000 August, Walter Mosley, “Extreme Fan”, in Vibe, volume 8, number 6, page 84:

  He called mutants Homo Superiors to underscore the difference between mutants and the rest of mankind—puny Homo sapiens.

• 2005, Gary Westfahl, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, volume 2, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, Superman, page 770:

  Another alien probe subjects astronaut John Crichton to evolutionary experiments in an episode of Farscape, "My Three Crichtons" (2000), but they not only produce a cold, intellectually superior Homo superior, but also a dim, emotional Homo neanderthalensis.

• 2005, Jan Johnson-Smith, “The Sacrifice of Angels”, in American Science Fiction TV: Star Trek, Stargate and Beyond, I.B.Tauris & Co, →ISBN, page 123:

  In the more explicit Prey (1997), bio-anthropologist Dr Sloan Parker discovers a new strain of human DNA with a 6% differential from homo sapiens, 'homo superior' — a new species.

• 2005 November 14, Eliot Coweye, “Does the homo superiour ^[sic] have the right to kill the homo sapiens?”, in alt.philosophy‎^[3] (Usenet), message-ID <1132016136.706860.269620@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>:

  I think there are two species of humans on this planet : The super-intelligent ones, the leaders, the geniuses, people like me - the homo superior.¶ And the dumb ape-like masses, the homo sapiens.

• 2006, John R. Cook, “The Age of Aquarius”, in British Science Fiction Television: A Hitchhiker's Guide, I.B.Tauris & Co, →ISBN, page 98:

  As a supercomputer constructed by leading 'Tomorrow Person' John (Nicholas Young), with the help of the Galactic Federation, TIM has the role of assisting the homo superiors in this fight from their secret base — appropriately called the 'lab' — in a disused tunnel of the London Underground.