Homo sapiens

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This is the peculiar predicament of Homo sapiens.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

Scientists increasingly believe that this flexibility may have helped Homo sapiens spread successfully across the world while other human relatives disappeared.

From Science Daily • May 20, 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

Given those extreme conditions, it is remarkable that Homo sapiens survived at all.

From Science Daily • May 11, 2026

The early farmers of the Fertile Crescent and China were heirs to the technology that behaviorially modern Homo sapiens had been developing to exploit local resources in those areas for tens of thousands of years.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond