Homo superioris

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^[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.