Homo superioris
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]Homo superioris
- Alternative form of Homo superior (“The hypothetical next evolutionary step beyond Homo sapiens.”)
- 1912, Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Beyond War[1], 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.