Homo sapiens

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That’s 192 endangered species until low male voices invoke one more, the species that named the others and now threatens them, and itself, with extinction: Homo sapiens.

From New York Times

That's not very long in geological terms — in fact, Homo sapiens probably first emerged around the same time.

From Salon

Many fields will be a hybrid, where some Homo sapiens find a lucky niche, but most of the work is done by computers.

From Salon

Humans, for example, are eukaryotes in the animal kingdom and our species name is Homo sapiens.

From Salon

By way of comparison, our species, Homo sapiens, arose roughly 300,000 years ago.

From Reuters