homunculi

Underpeople, the animal-derived "homunculi," were there, most of them in their work clothes, and they looked more human than did the human beings from the outer worlds.

Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973

They could speak, sing, read, write, work, love and die; but they were not covered by human law, which simply defined them as "homunculi" and gave them a legal status close to animals or robots.

Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973

This extravagance is also very pronounced in the alchemistic works attributed to him; for example, the belief in the artificial creation of minute living creatures resembling men (called "homunculi") -- a belief of the utmost absurdity, if we are to understand it literally.

Alchemy: Ancient and Modern 1922

According to Griffin and his monobrowed army of homunculi, Black and Asian Britons 'don't exist'.

Archive 2009-04-01 Dungeekin 2009

The ensuing events leads him into contact with the others of his kind, homunculi built around elements of the human spirit: 1 - the High Priest and Authority, 2 - the Engineer, 3 & 4 - the twin keepers of Lore, 5 - the Tinkerer and Gentle Spirit, 6 - the Mystic, 7 - the Warrior, and 8 - Brute Force.

“9″ is a runaway 10. A wonderful movie– see on the big screen « Third Point of Singularity 2009

Hmm. The Mill wonders which way the beardy Yank fiscal homunculi are going to go on this one.

Football transfer rumours: Glen Johnson to Juventus? Barney Ronay 2010

If I had a womb I would populate them with homunculi, with replicas and simulacra.

Architecture Paul McQuade 2011

According to Griffin and his monobrowed army of homunculi, Black and Asian Britons 'don't exist'.

Griffin, The 'C' Word and the BNP Dungeekin 2009

As opposed to the kind of Americans who tend to squat like vampiric fiscal homunculi on the neck of their floundering, whinnying prey.

Wayne Rooney, Americans and the terrible burden of ambition Barney Ronay 2010

The word "signals" jumps out: Elsewhere the author criticizes the homunculi little men, making quite difficult determinations, that pervade putative neuroscientific accounts of the mind; there is more than a hint of a homunculus in the notion of neurons that "signal" to one another.

Rethinking Thinking Raymond Tallis 2011