English

Proper noun

Homo superioris m

1. A taxonomic species within the family Hominidae. Hypothetical next evolutionary step beyond Homo sapiens.
   • 1912, Kellogg, Vernon Lyman, Beyond War, Henry Holt & Company, page 150:

     What is Homo superioris, evolution's Man of to-morrow, to be?

   • 1924 July 1, “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, Jurasik, Peter; Keith, William H., Diplomatic Act, Baen Books, ISBN 9780671877880, 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.

Synonyms

• Homo superior

Hypernyms

• (species): Hominidae - family; Homininae - subfamily; Hominini - tribe; Hominina - subtribe; Homo - genus