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Homo sapiens

[hoh-moh sey-pee-uhnz] / ˈhoʊ moʊ ˈseɪ pi ənz /


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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

The study, published in Nature in 2023, compared genetic material from present day African populations with fossil evidence from early Homo sapiens populations.

From Science Daily Apr. 26, 2026

But the arrival of Homo sapiens inaugurated a golden age for the species.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari




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