Homo definition/meaning

Homo a.k.a. Mykola Vorony was an Ukrainian writer, poet, theatre director, translator and actor.

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Getting it Wrong (1998)

The 'interior homo' was created in the image and likeness of God, says Jerome. 61 The interior homo is an image of God, not...

Punch (1858)

by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Sir Francis Cowley Burnand, Sir Owen Seaman

Homo is a substantive of common gender, and in the present instance is evidently to be referred to the second sex.

PUNCH; JANUARY TO JUNE, 1858 (1858)

Homo is a substantive of common gender, and in ; the present instance is evidently to be referred to the second...

What Does It Mean to Be Human? (2010)

It is to this fourth major group on the human family tree thatour own species, Homo sapieris, belongs. Homo is the most widespread, diverse, and recent of all the hominin genera it is also the genus known for its enlarged brain and toolmaking.

The Dictionary of Human Geography (2011)

Literally both 'sacred man' and 'accursed man', homo sacer was a subjectposition conferred by archaic Roman LAW on those whose lives and deaths were deemed to be of no consequence. This dismal figure has come to be of considerable ...

Companion encyclopedia of the history of medicine. 1 (1997)

Homo sapiens, although a latecomer on the planet, is none the less the product of millions of years of evolution beginning with distant primate ancestors. Several million years ago, one species of these forest-living apes, called Australophines, ...

Encyclopaedia Londinensis, or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature (1812)

For there is no real Contradiction in the position, that man, as a rational being of nature, (homo phenomenon,) having wants and inclinations which are regulated by laws of nature, and in whose gratification Happiness consists, should be ...

Historical Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Nubia (2003)

It is now firmly established that the origin of the hominids in various local forms of Homo africanus or Australopithecines is in Africa. Sites in Kenya, the Omo River valley of Ethiopia, the Afar region of Eritrea, and now even Chad show examples ...

Companion Encyclopedia of Geography (2003)

The Environment and Humankind by Prof Ian Douglas, Ian Douglas, Richard John Hugget, Mike Robinson

However, when the proteins and the genomes are compared, there is evidence that some of the DNA in both the nucleus and the mitochondria of the cells of Homo sapiens and Pan are very similar in structure. Indeed, the DNA of Pan is ...

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