Sapiens

Origin

From New Latin Homo sapiens, from Latin sapiēns, present active participle of sapiō ("discern, be capable of discerning").

Full definition of sapiens

Noun

1. Homo sapiens.
• 2000, William H. Libaw, How we got to be human: subjective minds with objective bodies‎, The earliest sapiens were gatherers, scavengers, and hunters of food.
• 2005, Sherwood L. Washburn, Classification and Human Evolution‎, Even if we assume that the rate of change was slow and the evolving population large, we must still assume that sapiens was rather isolated.

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