Homo sapiens

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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

Instead of modern observations, they used archaeological sites as "presence points" for both Neanderthals and Homo sapiens.

From Science Daily • Apr. 28, 2026

That work found that ancient southern Africans carried genetic variation outside the range seen in living people and identified Homo sapiens specific variants that may shed light on adaptation and evolution within Africa.

From Science Daily • Apr. 26, 2026

Thanks to the Cognitive Revolution, Homo sapiens acquired the ability to say, ‘The lion is the guardian spirit of our tribe.’

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