What is another word for homo?

Pronunciation: [hˈə͡ʊmə͡ʊ] (IPA)

Homo is a Latin term that means "man" or "human being." The word is often used to refer to the genus of primates that includes modern humans. However, there are several synonymous terms that can be used to describe this group of animals. For example, Homo sapiens, the scientific name for modern humans, can be described as hominids, or members of the family Hominidae. Other synonyms for the term "homo" include hominins, humanoids, and homines. These terms are often used in scientific literature to differentiate between different groups of humans or to describe evolutionary relationships between different species in the Homo genus.

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Famous quotes with Homo

  • Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.
    William S. Burroughs
  • The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
    Gore Vidal
  • Certain anthropologists would fain teach us that all races are equally gifted; we point to history and answer: that is a lie! The races of mankind are markedly different in the nature and also in the extent of their gifts, and the Germanic races belong to the most highly gifted group, the group usually termed Aryan... Physically and mentally the Aryans are pre-eminent among all peoples; for that reason they are by right … the lords of the world. Do we not see the homo syriacus develop just as well and as happily in the position of slave as of master? Do the Chinese not show us another example of the same nature?
    Houston Stewart Chamberlain
  • A mind of a certain size can feel only exasperation toward a city. Nothing can drive me more fully into despair. The walls first of all, and even then all the rest is only so many horrid images of selfishness, mistrust, stupidity, and narrow-mindedness. No need to memorize the Napoleonic code. Just look at a city and you have it. Each time I come back from the country, just as I am starting to congratulate myself on my calmness, there breaks out a furor, a rage... And I come upon my mark, homo sapiens, the acquisitive wolf. Cities, architectures, how I loathe you! Great surfaces of vaults, vaults cemented into the earth, vaults set out in compartments, forming vaults to eat in, vaults for sex, vaults on the watch, ready to open fire. How sad, sad...
    Henri Michaux

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