Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A genus of primates that includes modern humans (Homo sapiens) and several extinct species.
- noun Used in combination with mock Latin adjectives to indicate a type of person or to characterize humans generally, often for humorous effect.
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- proper noun A
taxonomic genus , withinsubfamily Homininae - variousspecies ofman , all but one of which isextinct .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Homo; Theodosius is addressed by Theodahad as _Homo suus_; meaning of the term (?), x.
The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872
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If homo neanderthalensis is human as you said above, then why not list it with Homo sapiens?
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He actually coined the term Homo sapiens -- it means wise man in Latin.
Spencer Wells builds a family tree for humanity Spencer Wells 2007
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He actually coined the term Homo sapiens -- it means wise man in Latin.
Spencer Wells builds a family tree for humanity Spencer Wells 2007
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He actually coined the term Homo sapiens -- it means wise man in Latin.
Spencer Wells builds a family tree for humanity Spencer Wells 2007
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It took me a minute to figure out that "Homo" is this guy's name.
July 20th, 2005 2005
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Johanson and White’s paper also presented a new interpretation of the origins of humankind, one that was certain to be controversial, arguing as it did that the human species, as defined by the term Homo, was little more than two million years old.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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Johanson and White’s paper also presented a new interpretation of the origins of humankind, one that was certain to be controversial, arguing as it did that the human species, as defined by the term Homo, was little more than two million years old.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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The removal of the latter extinguishes the former: it is no accident, he says in Homo Sacer, that Jews under the Third Reich were formally stripped of their citizenship before being consigned to the camps.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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Gigantopithecus blacki molar enamel (and to a lesser extent, that of Pongo pygmaeus) is distributed relatively evenly across the occlusal surface compared with the more complex distribution of enamel thickness in Homo sapiens.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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