Homo definition

Homo in Greek means ‘same’ and in Latin ‘gender’. Another term ‘homophile’ (‘homos’ means ‘same’ and ‘philein’ means ‘to love’) which expresses more of romantic interest in same sex than sexual interaction. Since the word, ‘homosexual’ is too clinical men of this kind prefer to be called gay or queer and women lesbian or dyke. However ‘queer’ and ‘dyke’ are used to humiliate these people so can be offensive. When this kind of sexual orientation is kept a secret, it is said to be ‘in the closet’. They do so, for the fear of the dangerous consequences they may have to face. But when people have the courage to admit such association, they are said to be ‘out of the closet’ or ‘proud’. The word ‘proud’ here does not mean that they are proud of the ‘act’ they are involved in, but means the opposite of ‘shame’. It implies that they are not ashamed of themselves for the uncommon ways they follow but are happy and celebrate it.

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Homo means “the same”. The word homozygous means the two alleles the organism has for a given gene are the same. For example, if we think about the eye colour gene, there might be two alleles, b for blue eyes and B for brown eyes. An organism homozygous for that gene has two alleles which are the same, e.g. they have two B alleles or two b alleles, making their genotype BB or bb.

Homo means ‘the same’. ‘Phone’ means ‘sound’.

Examples of Homo in a sentence

• The Good, Bad and Ugly of information (un) processing; Homo Economicus, Homo Heuristicus and Homo Ignorans.

• Dispersion du Genre Homo au sud d’Ibérie et au Maghreb: nouvelles données a propos des fossiles VM-1960 et BL-0.

• The lifeways of Homo erectus inferred from archaeology and evolutionary ecology: a perspective from East Africa.

• Middle Stone Age (MSA) site distributions in eastern Africa and their relationship to Quaternary environmental change, refugia and the evolution of Homo sapiens.

• Homo videns: een essay over de kijkende mens en de ondergang van het denken.

• Homo ▇▇▇▇▇▇: Proeve Eener Bepaling van het Spel-Element der Cultuur.

• Environmental and Behavioral Evidence Pertaining to the Evolution of Early Homo.

• Environment, Culture, and Human Evolution: Hominids first evolved in mosaic environments, but stone toolmaking accelerated the emergence of Homo, and both culture and environment subsequently served as catalysts for evolution.

• The Late Villafranchian and biochro- nology of South-East Europe: faunal migrations, environmental changes and possible first appearance of the genus Homo on the continent.

• Evaluating the transitional mosaic: frameworks of change from Neanderthals to Homo sapiens in eastern Europe.

More Definitions of Homo

Homo means the same. ‘Hetero’ means different.