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sapiens en · NOUN

Etymology

From translingual Homo sapiens, from Latin sapiēns, present active participle of sapiō (“discern, be capable of discerning”).

Meanings

1. A human being (Homo sapiens).
   • 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. 2005, Sherwood L. Washburn, Classification and Human Evolution, page 335:
   • The earliest sapiens were gatherers, scavengers, and hunters of food. 2000, William H. Libaw, How we got to be human: subjective minds with objective bodies, page 277:

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