| Name | Translation | Notes |
| Homo oeconomicus | "economic man" | man as a rational and self-interested agent. |
| Homo faber | "toolmaker man"
"fabricator man"
"worker man" | Benjamin Franklin, Karl Marx, Kenneth P. Oakley 1949, Max Frisch 1957, Hannah Arendt.[2] |
| Homo generosus | "generous man" | suggested by popular science writer Tor Nørretranders in his book Generous Man on evolutionary theory and sociobiology. |
| Homo ludens | "playing man" | Friedrich Schiller 1795. Suggested by Dutch historian, cultural theorist and professor Johan Huizinga, in his book Homo Ludens. The characterization of human culture as essentially bearing the character of play. |
| Homo sociologicus | "sociological man" | parody term; the human as prone to sociology, Ralf Dahrendorf. |
| Homo loquens | "talking man" | man as the only animal capable of language, J.G. Herder 1772, J.F. Blumenbach 1779 |
| Homo loquax | "chattering man" | parody variation of Homo loquens, used by Henri Bergson (1943), Tom Wolfe (2006),[3] also in A Canticle for Leibowitz (1960).[4] |
| Homo necans | "killing man" | Walter Burkert |
| Homo demens | "mad man" | man as the only being with irrational delusions. Edgar Morin 1975 |
| Homo ridens | "laughing man" | G.B. Milner 1969 |
| Homo sentimentalis | "sentimental man" | man born to a civilization of sentiment, who has raised feelings to a category of value; the human ability to empathize, but also to idealize emotions and make them servants of ideas. Milan Kundera in Immortality (1990), Eugene Halton in Bereft of Reason: On the Decline of Social Thought and Prospects for Its Renewal (1995). |
| Homo politicus | "political man", "social man" | zóon politikón, animal sociale, after Aristotle |
| Homo inermis | "helpless man" | man as defenseless, unprotected, devoid of animal instincts. J.F. Blumenbach 1779, J.G. Herder 1784-1791, Arnold Gehlen 1940 |
| Homo creator | "creator man" | human creativity, Michael Landmann 1955, W.E. Mühlmann 1962 |
| Homo pictor | "depicting man", "man the artist" | human sense of aesthetics, Hans Jonas 1961 |
| Homo aestheticus | "aesthetic man" | human sense of aesthetics, capability to appreciate art and beauty, Ellen Dissanayahe 1992 |
| Homo grammaticus | "grammatical man" | human use of grammar, language, Frank Palmer 1971 |
| Homo imitans | "imitating man" | human capability of learning and adapting by imitation, A.N. Meltzoff 1988, Jürgen Lethmate 1992 |
| Homo discens | "learning man" | human capability to learn and adapt, Heinrich Roth, Theodor Wilhelm |
| Homo educanus | "to be educated" | human need of education before reaching maturity, Heinrich Roth 1966 |
| Homo investigans | "investigating man" | human curiosity and capability to learn by deduction, Werner Luck 1976 |
| Homo excentricus | "not self-centered" | human capability for objectivity, human self-reflection, theory of mind, Helmuth Plessner 1928 |
| Homo metaphysicus | "metaphysical man" | Arthur Schopenhauer 1819 |
| Homo religiosus | "religious man" | Alister Hardy |
| Homo viator | "pilgrim man" | man as on his way towards finding God, Gabriel Marcel 1945 |
| Homo patiens | "suffering man" | human capability for suffering, Victor Frankl 1988 |
| Homo laborans | "working man" | human capability for division of labour, specialization and expertise in craftsmanship and, Theodor Litt 1948 |
| animal laborans | "laboring animal" | Hannah Arendt[2] |
| animal symbolicum | "symbolizing animal" | use of symbols, Ernst Cassirer 1944 |
| animal rationabile | "animal capable of rationality" | Carl von Linné 1760, Kant 1798 |
| homo socius | "social man" | man as a social being. Inherent to humans as long as they have not lived entirely in isolation. Peter Berger & Thomas Luckmann in The Social Construction of Reality (1966). |
| pan narrans | "storytelling ape" | man not only as an intelligent species, but also as the only one who tells stories. From "The Science of Discworld II: The Globe" by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen |
