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superprimate

noun

Etymology

From super + primate.

  1. derived from prīmās — “chief bishop”
  2. derived from primat
  3. inherited from primat
  4. compounded as superprimate — “super + primate”

Definitions

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

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

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA