super-primate

plural super-primates

1. alternativeAlternative form of superprimate.

   The older brain is very old indeed, and in its super-primate form served hominids well during their long hunting-and-gathering period.

   1979, Howard L. Parsons, Man Today: Problems, Values and Fulfillment, →ISBN, page 143

   2 more examples

   None of them have real thoughts, none can foresee the future or regret the past, none are self-aware, except the super-primate humans, us.

   1996, Lewis Thomas, Fragile Species, →ISBN, page 102

   In deference to William of Ockham, it would seem prudent to view genus Homo as a super-primate up to the point where new models and theories are required to make sense of the more phylogenetically advanced behavioral phenomena.

   2013, K. Bailey, Human Paleopsychology, →ISBN

2. An exemplary primate.

   I'd read in a book about monkeys that the primate nervous system was slow to be turned on and even slower to switch off. If so, Pia was a super-primate in that she took forever to respond but once aroused could never calm down.

   2012, Edmund White, Jack Holmes and His Friend, →ISBN, page 254