Primates - order; Hominidae - family; Homininae - subfamily; Hominini - tribe; Hominina - subtribe; Homo - genus
Origin
New Latin, from Latin homo + superior. After New Latin Homo sapiens. Coined by Olaf Stapledon in his 1935 novel Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest.
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