sapiens
- adjective
- /ˈseɪpiənz/
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sapiens
- And only for the last handful of millennia really has it been us Homo sapiens alone, pondering where we came from.
Examples
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And that part of the brain is actually unique to Homo sapiens and certain great apes.
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For example, people have speculated about Homo sapiens having committed genocide against Neanderthals.
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We are the species called Homo sapiens sapiens, and it's important to remember that.
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All Homo sapiens show these kinds same patterns.
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We call ourselves Homo sapiens, which means the wise ones we were humble enough to call ourselves.
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And that looks very different for homo sapiens sapiens than for other primates.
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Equally as important is that humans, Homo sapiens, were the only victim of smallpox.
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We learned that we as human bodies of Homo sapiens, from the cellular point of view, are more microbial than humans.
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That is perhaps one of the greatest questions ever asked by a member of Homo sapiens since the six million years since we parted ways with the apes.
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All Homo sapiens share a complex language system that sets them apart from other species.
Synonyms
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9.1
Relating to people and their lives
Compounds
- Specialized
An extinct type of human that lived in Europe and western Asia long ago
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sapiens comes from a Latin word meaning 'wise' or 'knowing', the same root you see in sapient and in Homo sapiens. So, sapiens links the word to the idea of modern humans as smart, thinking people.