Homo sapiens
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Meanwhile, modern Homo sapiens have existed for only 300,000 years, and what are the odds we make it even another millennium?
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
Nominally the case turned on OpenAI’s conversion to a for-profit company and Mr. Musk’s worries about Homo sapiens being displaced by superintelligent robots.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
In recent decades, many biologists and anthropologists have come to view Homo sapiens as what’s called a “cooperative breeder.”
From Slate • May 10, 2026
At this stage of the analysis, clear differences between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens began to appear.
From Science Daily • Apr. 28, 2026
About 70,000 years ago, organisms belonging to the species Homo sapiens started to form even more elaborate structures called cultures.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
