superprimate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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?"
- "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."