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modern man

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Noun1.modern man - subspecies of Homo sapiensmodern man - subspecies of Homo sapiens; includes all modern races
Homo sapiens sapiens
genus Homo - type genus of the family Hominidae
Homo sapiens - the only surviving hominid; species to which modern man belongs; bipedal primate having language and ability to make and use complex tools; brain volume at least 1400 cc
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In face of the facts that modern man lives more wretchedly than the cave-man, and that his producing power is a thousand times greater than that of the cave-man, no other conclusion is possible than that the capitalist class has mismanaged, that you have mismanaged, my masters, that you have criminally and selfishly mismanaged.
The Iron Heel by London, Jack View in context
The distinction does not matter; for I, too, the modern man, have gone back and lived that early life in the company of my other-self.
Before Adam by London, Jack View in context
On the other side of the house, old Roger Chillingworth arranged his study and laboratory: not such as a modern man of science would reckon even tolerably complete, but provided with a distilling apparatus and the means of compounding drugs and chemicals, which the practised alchemist knew well how to turn to purpose.
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