Superprimate

Quick meaning: Superprimate is a noun meaning A primate that is markedly superior in some way to other primates.

Meaning

A primate that is markedly superior in some way to other primates.

Example Sentences

Was I still in a close relationship with the biology that spawned me, or was I a “parvenu” kind of animal, a superprimate?

We are not a whole new experiment in the evolutionary process, but a superprimate. A quantitative change in the evolving human brain, however, has produced a qualitative change of extraordinary significance.

Without cultural programming, they could never become symbolizing organs. They would become something else, very powerful perceptual-motor systems, like those of a superprimate, perhaps, but not truly symbolic.

If you are looking about for things to even out the disparity between the brains of ordinary animalsand the great minds of ourselves, the superprimate humans, this apparatus is a good one to reflect on in humility. Compared to the common dog, or any rodent in the field, we are primitive, insensitive creatures, biological failures.

Word Forms

• superprimates
• super-primate

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include super-primate, better, supermonkey, superrace, superbeing, superiority.

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